Migration and literature in contemporary Europe
By: Mirjam Gebauer, Pia Schwarz Lausten (ed.).
Publisher: Martin Meidenbauer; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2010
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9783899752045
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

English, with one article in French.
Table of contents: title: Migration literature : Europe in transition / Mirjam Gabauer & Pia Schwarz Lausten; title: Unfinished modernism : European destinations of transnational writing / Azade Seyhan; title: Elsewhere : tracing the evidence / Charles Lock; title: Four theses on migration and literature / Søren Frank; title: Nostalgia : the longing for sameness / Jørn Boisen; title: The voice of the 'real migrant' : contemporary migration literature in Sweden / Wolfgang Behschnitt; title: Living in a language / Pia Schwarz Lausten; title: Network and movement : two tropes in recent German migration literature and film / Mirjam Gebauer; title: After the 'cartoons' : the rise of a new Danish migration literature? / Moritz Schramm; title: Migrant writing as a strategy of legacy hunting in the French literary field / Christina Horvath; title: Migration el parole littéraire déplacée, entre France et Maghreb / Charles Bonn; title: Migrants, or living the postcolonial? : Greenlandic authors in transnational space / Kirsten Thisted; title: 'Missioni' : double identity and plurilingualism in the works of three female migrant writers in Italy / Daniele Comberiati; title: The theme of labor in contemporary Volga German literature / Anna Rodzevich; title: Migrant literature in Italy and Europe : patterns compared / Nora Moll; title: 'Kanak Sprak' and Union Suspecte : scandals around hybrid and multilingual literature in Germany and Belgium / Thomas Ernst; title: 'Fed with the same food' : Dutch authors Hafid Bouazza and Abdelkader Benali act on Shakespeare / Henriette Louwerse; title: Stereotypes of China and Europe in the writings of Chinese migrant writers in Germany and France / Heidrun Hörner; title: Danish identity and the migrant hero's hybridising gaze in Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier / Sten Pultz Moslund; title: 'Back to London' : subject and city in Bernardine Evaristo's Lara / Marie Lauritzen; title: Among and between : alterity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn / Maria Mayr; title: Irony, hybridity and agency in Meera Syal's Anita and me / Katja Lehnert; title: Moving Moroccan memories : Hafid Bouazza's critical re-vision of De voeten van Abdullah / Liesbeth Minnaard.