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It begins with a discussion of categorisation and content of the literature and considers what this literature can tell us about migration, focussing on four key aspects: combating dominant narratives; challenging nationalist ideologies; providing historical perspectives; and therapeutic practice.
19 lip 2019 · This essay offers some impressions of a grassroots literature group and the multifaceted nongovernmental organization of which it is a part: the Migrant Workers Home based in Picun, in the suburbs of Beijing.
Migration has come to play an increasingly significant role in relation to such basic social foundations such as politics, economics, geography and culture. However, movement and human restlessness has had a remarkable effect on literature (as a particular cultural production) as well.
Migrant literature, sometimes written by migrants themselves, tells stories of immigration. Although any experience of migration would qualify an author to be classed under migrant literature, the main focus of recent research has been on the principal channels of mass-migration in the twentieth century.
6 gru 2023 · By defining migration literature as a genre characterized by an open-ended web of intertextual relations and rethinking intertextuality as a heightened form of transculturality, the essay also takes world literature studies into new directions.
The intimate knowledge of two or more cultures often translates into multicultural and multilingual texts intended for international audiences. What makes migrant literature even more inclusive is that it comprises of high-brow as well as middle-brow and low-brow texts.
This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts.
