Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration - Softcover

Connell, John; King, Russell; White, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415105307 ISBN 13: 9780415105309

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demands of the global economic system and continued political instability in many of the world's region have highlighted this shifting map of the world's peoples.
Yet, political concern for the larger scale economic and social impact of migration has effectively obscured the nature of the migratory nature of the migratory experience itself, the emotions and practicalities of departure, travel, arrival and the attempt to rebuild a home.
Writing Across Worlds explores an extraordinary range of migration literaturesm from letters and diaries to journalistic articles, autobiographies and fiction, in order to analyse the reality of the migrant's experience. The sheer range of writings - Irish, Friulian, Italian, Jewish and South Asian British, Gastarbeiter literature from Germany, Pied noir, French-Algerian and French West Indian writing, Carribbean novels, Slovene emigrant texts, Japanese-Canadian writing, migration in American novels, narratives from Australia, South Africa, Samoa and others - illustrate the diversity of global migratory experience and emphasise the social context of literature.
The geographic and literary range of Writing Across Worlds makes this collection an invaluable analysis of migration, giving voice to the hope, pain, nostalgia and triumph of lives lived in other places.

About this title

About the Author:

Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. John Connell is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Sydney. Paul White is a Reader in Geography at the University of Sheffield.

Review:

..."an insightful, cross-disciplinary collection."
-"Labor History
"As an attempt to extend the methodological range of research on migration in the social sciences "Writing Across Worlds is a welcome effort ... [I]n the final analysis [this] is a very enjoyable and thought-provoking read."
-Khalid Koser, University of Sussex

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415105307
• ISBN 13: 9780415105309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304