Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi

Writing Home
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04874-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Hybridity, Identity and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of ‘home’. Focusing on the works of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi, as well as other contemporary poets, this book examines how ‘home’ is constructed through language, memory, and lived experience, existing as both a physical place and an evolving process of becoming. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diasporic perspectives, and literary representations of place, the book investigates themes of exile, hybridity, and the intersections of personal and national identity. In doing so, it asks: how does poetry articulate the complexities of belonging in a world increasingly shaped by migration, displacement, and shifting cultural identities?

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davey, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Credits

Introduction

Part 1: The foundations of ‘Home’

Chapter 1: Different Notions of Home

(1.1) Conceptualising Home

(1.2) Postcolonial Perspectives

Chapter 2: ‘Home’ in theory

(2.1) The Experiential

(2.2) The Imaginative

(2.3) Homi Bhabha, Hybridity, and Third Space Theory

(2.4) Gendered Perspectives

(2.5) The Loss of Home

Part 2: Reading ‘Home’

Chapter 3: Contemporary British Poetry

(3.1) ‘Home-based’ poetry in English

(3.2) Post-colonial Poetries

Part 3: Writing ‘Home’

Chapter 4: Hidden Worlds: Moniza Alvi

(4.1) The Poetics of Uncertainty

(4.2) The Embodied Identity

(4.3) The Mythopoetic

(4.4) Map Making

Chapter 5: My English Years: Choman Hardi

(5.1) Memory and Exile

(5.2) My English Years

(5.3) The Poetics of Witness

(5.4) Considering the Women

Conclusions

Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Davey is a researcher of place and identity in modern and contemporary poetry. He holds BA and MA degrees from Bath Spa University, where he also taught Creative Writing for several years, and earned his PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he currently teaches research skills at the University of the West of England, International College.