Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion

Poetics of the Migrant explores the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to create a theory and method for analysing migrant literature, revealing patterns of movement and transforming how we process and interpret social history through social motion.

Format: Hardback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Migrant literature has been celebrated for its ability to depict migration and inspire reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility since the 1980s. However, beyond depicting migration, can it also be a force of movement itself? Poetics of the Migrant seeks to answer this question by drawing on the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to develop a theory and method for analyzing migrant literature. The text identifies patterns of movement that migrant texts enact and create, which it refers to as a movement-oriented poetics. Migrant literature understands movement as the defining force of human history and the migrant as the primary figure of cultural and political transformation. By transforming how we process and interpret social history through social motion, migrant literature has the potential to create a different world where movement and migrancy are legible and thinkable.

Weight: 718g
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399524995