Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English: A Comparative Study

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30599-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 187, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen Zur

Up until now, ‘migration literature’ has primarily been defined as ‘texts written by migrant authors’, a definition that has been discussed, criticised, and even rejected by critics and authors alike. Very rarely has ‘migration literature’ been understood as ‘literature on the topic of migration’, which is an approach this book adopts by presenting a comparative analysis of contemporary texts on experiences of migration. By focusing on specific themes and motifs in selected texts, this study suggests that migration literature is a sub-genre that exists in both various bodies of literature as well as various languages. This book analyses English and German texts by authors such as Monica Ali, Dimitré Dinev, Anna Kim, Timothy Mo, Preethi Nair, Caryl Phillips, Hamid Sadr, and Vladimir Vertlib, among others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vlasta, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Exilliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. The motif of language in migration literature
3. Identity and the search for identity in migration literature expressed by cooking, eating and food
4. Depictions of the new homeland
5. Global ethnoscapes in migration literature
6. Conclusion
7. Bio-Bibliographical notes on the authors
8. Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Vlasta is currently lecturing in Comparative Literature at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria in 2008. She taught German at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy, was a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, and a Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests are literature and migration, travel writing, multilingual literature, and postcolonial literature and theory.