Culture, Literature and Migration
Culture, Literature and Migration
Contributor(s): Ali Tilbe (Editor), Rania M. Rafik Khalil (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Media studies, Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Sociology, Turkish Literature, Other Language Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social development, Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; culture; literature; Africa; Turkey; identity; media; image; gender; postcolonial literature; Monica Ali; Elif Shafak; Upton Sinclair; Chris Abani;
Summary/Abstract: Culture, Literature and Migration gives us a unique insight into the emotional and physical experiences of immigrants. By shedding light on the challenges of the plight, the chapters in this book raise awareness of the global scale of the crisis and reduces hostility towards the displaced as a result of a better understanding of that which is often left unspoken of and unheard of. The distinctiveness of voluntary and involuntary immigration is brought forward and contextualized in order to emphasise the trauma of forced departure and the often forgotten psychological complications of the host nation. With such matters arising, there is an ultimate return to notions of hegemony, colonialism, otherness, hybridity and citizenship. New understandings of identity, nationalism and multiculturalism are explored in context of transnationalism and multiculturalism. Culture, Literature and Migration critically analyzes the transformation of the immigrant and highlights the importance of hope and the power of inclusiveness in a fragmented global environment. Content Introduction – Ali Tilbe and Rania M Rafik Khalil Chapter 1 – The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane Petru Golban and Derya Benli Chapter 2 – The Migrant Female Writer, Originally from Muslim Country in the Literary Field: A Sociological Approach Francesco Bellinzis Chapter 3 – Migration, Integration and Power. The Image of “the Dumb Swede” in Swede Hollow and the Image of Contemporary New Swedes in One Eye Red and She Is Not Me Maria Bäcke Chapter 4 – Coerced Migration, Migrating Rhetoric: The ‘Forked Tongue’ of Native American Removal Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States Estella Ciobanu Chapter 5 – The Migrant Hero’s Boundaries of Masculine Honour Code in Elif Shafak’s Honour Tatiana Golban Chapter 6 – Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) Cansu Özge Özmen Chapter 7 – Migration, Maturation and Identity Crisis in Abani’s Select Novels: A Postcolonial Reading Bernard Dickson and Chinyere Egbuta.
Series: Migration Series
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-1-912997-28-2
- Page Count: 150
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: English
The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
(The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane)
- Author(s):Petru Golban, Derya Benli
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:7-56
- No. of Pages:50
- Keywords:migration; Bildungsroman; hybrid identity; postcolonial context; Monica Ali; Brick Lane;
- Summary/Abstract:Focusing on Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane, and with regard to its major protagonists Nazneen, Chanu, and Karim, the present study reveals the ways in which the author creates characters who face difficulties and are subjected to crises caused by their alienation from their native country, culture and identity, which would lead in turn to their cultural ambiguity, transformation into hybrid individuals, and eventually to experiences of identity crisis in an environment represented by the Bangladeshi community in east London. Monica Ali reveals that identity is under threat within the East End immigrant community; in this respect, she appears to materialize in her fictional discourse various concepts and concerns – such as identity, identity crisis, identity formation, individual subject, developing consciousness, hybridity, ambiguity, mimicry, individual and society – just as Wordsworth would reify in his literary practice his own principles of poetic composition, or as Lawrence would express in his novels the Freudian principles.
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The Migrant Female Writer, Originally from Muslim Country in the Literary Field: A Sociological Approach
The Migrant Female Writer, Originally from Muslim Country in the Literary Field: A Sociological Approach
(The Migrant Female Writer, Originally from Muslim Country in the Literary Field: A Sociological Approach)
- Author(s):Francesco Bellinzis
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Sociology, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:57-71
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:migration; islam; migrant female writer; sociology;
- Summary/Abstract:To understand how many narratives have been concealed by a dominant narrative which nullifies others, it is important to reopen the archives of European contemporary literature through the critical voice of a migrant female writer, originally from a Muslim country. The literary production of female migrants originally from Muslim countries does not allow for the creation of an objective scientific analysis of the social condition of this subject, however, it allows understanding of the different products of cultural representations of her. In the literary landscape, a novel is a fundamental space in which to draw symbolic boundaries. As Spivak affirms: “the role of literature in the production of cultural representation should not be ignored” (Spivak, 1988, p. 243).
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Migration, Integration and Power. The Image of “the Dumb Swede” in Swede Hollow and the Image of Contemporary New Swedes in One Eye Red and She Is Not Me
Migration, Integration and Power. The Image of “the Dumb Swede” in Swede Hollow and the Image of Contemporary New Swedes in One Eye Red and She Is Not Me
(Migration, Integration and Power. The Image of “the Dumb Swede” in Swede Hollow and the Image of Contemporary New Swedes in One Eye Red and She Is Not Me)
- Author(s):Maria Bäcke
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Media studies, Geography, Regional studies, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:73-87
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:migration; integration; power; Sweden; "dumb Swede"; image; media; identity;
- Summary/Abstract:Immigrant voices rarely get their time in the spotlight in mainstream media and therefore their stories rarely get the reception needed for the general public to understand what it is like to be an immigrant or a refugee, but this literary analysis of three novels-Ola Larsmo’s Swede Hollow (2016), Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Ett Öga Rött [One Eye Red, my transl.] (2003) and Golnaz Hashemzadeh’s She Is Not Me (2015)-shows how literature can provide precisely that perspective. Swede Hollow maps a time of Swedish late 19th century and early 20th century immigration into the United States. Extensively researched and based on authentic, contemporary sources, Larsmo highlights the characters’ toil and hardships in the new country, but he also shows their paths to becoming established U.S. citizens. The two latter novels are written by authors who themselves are well acquainted with contemporary migration and integration issues and processes in Sweden. Khemiri is of Swedish Tunisian origin and his novel portrays immigrant life in a Swedish multiethnic suburb of Stockholm with a 15-year-old boy, Halim, as its main character. The Hashemzadeh family’s country of origin is Iran and Golnaz Hashemzadeh arrived in Sweden at the age of three. Her semi autobiographical novel She Is Not Me portrays “the Girl’s” journey growing up in Swedish almost exclusively white and middle-class Gustavsberg, and her ambition as she was accepted at the most prestigious universities in Sweden, but also the costs for her personally.
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Coerced Migration, Migrating Rhetoric: The ‘Forked Tongue’ of Native American Removal Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Coerced Migration, Migrating Rhetoric: The ‘Forked Tongue’ of Native American Removal Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
(Coerced Migration, Migrating Rhetoric: The ‘Forked Tongue’ of Native American Removal Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States)
- Author(s):Estella Ciobanu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Geography, Regional studies, Social differentiation, Studies in violence and power, 19th Century, Migration Studies
- Page Range:89-101
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:migrations; coerced migration; rhetoric; USA; 19th century; native american removal policy;
- Summary/Abstract:It cannot be overstated how condescending the I/father–you/my children dichotomy sounds. (Neither the ‘Friends & Brothers’ interpellation nor the spurious ‘your father and friend’ self-identification nor the euphemistic ‘advises’ can mitigate its hierarchical thrust.) Some modern readers may not find such paternalism offensive, thanks to their regular congress with the clergy, whose discursive subject position is traditionally that of a (spiritual) father – the self-styled vicar (vicarius, ‘substitute’) of God the Father. President Jackson assumes here a comparable lordly position, yet one endorsed, he claims, from heaven (the deity) to earth (white male ballot). Claims to the natives’ land had long been sounded as an authority-related argumentum by verecundiam in appeals by European settlers to the charts issued by their monarchs as enforcers of Christianity, hence allegedly of God’s will. Granted that the differential governmental traditions and the European ruse – we have a chart to support our claim to your land; can you produce yours? – must have taken the natives by surprise. But did the ruse appear to them as the Great Spirit’s hand? Decidedly not.
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The Migrant Hero’s Boundaries of Masculine Honour Code in Elif Shafak’s Honour
The Migrant Hero’s Boundaries of Masculine Honour Code in Elif Shafak’s Honour
(The Migrant Hero’s Boundaries of Masculine Honour Code in Elif Shafak’s Honour)
- Author(s):Tatiana Golban
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Turkish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:103-118
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Turkish literature; migration; migrant hero; masculine honour code; Elif Shafak; Honour;
- Summary/Abstract:The contemporary literary and cultural studies emphasize primarily concerns such as mass migration, global movement, mass displacement, and other similar aspects of life which in our epoch assume a central position. Some historical and social conjunctions have brought to the creation of the phenomena of migration, which although not new, has accelerated greatly in the recent decades. The globalized finances and industries have led to the creation of international labour force, which has brought with itself the illegal immigration and its implicit acknowledged binary opposition between the developed and undeveloped areas of the world. The accelerated modes of transportation and communication have also contributed to the growth of mobility of people, commodities, information, capital, etc. Therefore, we witness an era of an unmatched movement, border crossing, and migration. This grand spectacle we behold includes tourists, frequent travelers, pilgrims, but also refugees, expatriates, immigrants and exiles, who in the moment of the border crossing confront with cultural, religious, social, ethnic and linguistic barriers. In this age, as Sten Pultz Moslund claims, “we are witnessing a massive international and transnational defeat of gravity, an immense uprooting of origin and belonging, an immense displacement of borders, with all the clashes, meetings, fusions and intermixings it entails, reshaping the cultural landscapes of the world’s countries and cities” (2010, p. 2).
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Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)
Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)
(Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906))
- Author(s):Cansu Özge Özmen
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Labor relations, Migration Studies
- Page Range:119-131
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:USA; migration; Lithuanian immigrants; literary representations; literature; Upton Sinclair; The Jungle; labor relations;
- Summary/Abstract:On August 4, 1904, American journalist Ernest Poole published a short account in Independent called “From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards, An Autobiography: Antanas Kaztauskis”. He had visited Chicago as a press agent for the workers’ union and sought to investigate the labour movement among the meatpacking workers. He stayed in Chicago for six weeks and conducted extensive interviews with workers who lived in what is called the “Back of the Yards” neighbourhood in the west and south of Packingtown, a residential area predominantly populated by immigrants.
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Migration, Maturation and Identity Crisis in Abani’s Select Novels: A Postcolonial Reading
Migration, Maturation and Identity Crisis in Abani’s Select Novels: A Postcolonial Reading
(Migration, Maturation and Identity Crisis in Abani’s Select Novels: A Postcolonial Reading)
- Author(s):Bernard Dickson, Chinyere Egbuta
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social development, Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:133-150
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:migration; maturation; identity; postcolonial literature; Chris Abani; GraceLand;
- Summary/Abstract:Migration, displacement, maturative dislocation and identity crisis constitute themes for literary discourse in the twenty-first century, especially as fall-outs of colonialism and globalization. The Nigerian literature of the twenty-first century reveals the preponderance by writers, some of who live abroad, to confront the notions of migration, dislocation and identity crisis, through their literary works. They portray varying prevalent social realities, especially as they affect people of the Third World. It is not uncommon, therefore, to encounter the child-protagonist as he/she grapples with the vicissitudes of daily existence, maturation and identity formation in a dystopian environment. For example, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie uses the characters of Kambili and Jaja (Purple Hibiscus); Ugwu (Half of a Yellow Sun) and Ifemelu, Obinze, Emenike etc (Americanah) to explore the growing-up motif as a tool for exposing the maturational processes of the child-protagonist who struggles towards identity formation in a seemingly hostile environment.
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