Migration Literature and Hybridity: The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change

by S. Moslund

Overview

Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230251465
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/07/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sten Pultz Moslund is Associate Professor in the department of Comparative Literature in the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1

Part I A Critical Re-Engagement with the Theorisation of Hybridity and Becoming

1 From Celebration to Problemisation 29

2 Forces of Sameness and Difference in Organic Hybridity 48

3 Forces of Sameness and Difference in Intentional Hybridity 66

Part II The Speeds of the Migrant Hero and Hybridity Discourses in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier and V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival

4 The Migrant Hero's Incredible Speed in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine 101

5 Mongrel Speeds, Slow Danes and Telescopic Gazes in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier 136

6 Fast and Slow Becomings in the Migrant's Vision in V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival 173

7 Conclusion 215

Notes 227

Bibliography 235

Index 245

Editorial Reviews

'The application of these migration and hybridity discourses in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier and V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival adds to the academic worth of the volume. Discursive notes to the chapters, an almost exhaustive bibilography on the subject and the brilliantly executed and meticulous index make it a gem of literary criticism.' - Routledge ABES June 2011

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