Lexington Books
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978-1-7936-1700-2 • Hardback • May 2020 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
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Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and vice dean for international affairs at the University of Siegen.
Geoffroy de Laforcadeis professor of Latin American, Caribbean and world history at Norfolk State University.
Page R. Laws is professor of English and dean of the Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College at Norfolk State University.
Cathy Covell Waegner is an independent scholar.
Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape – Editors’ IntroductionSection 1: Literary InterventionsChapter 1: Recuperating the Black Family in Graphic Narrative: Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage and Kyle Baker’s Nat TurnerDaniel Stein
Chapter 2: Generational Doubling as Eth(n)ic Narrative Strategy: Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Cathy Covell Waegner
Chapter 3: “As Much the Invader as the Native”: Investigating Immigrant and Indigenous Family Ties in Wendy Rose’s Itch Like Crazy
Ludmila Martanovschi
Chapter 4: Mothers/Lovers of Exiles: Women Characters in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names
Patrycja Kurjatto-Renard
Chapter 5: The Securitized Migrant: Migrant Mobility and Kindred Alliances in Post-9/11 New York Novels
Isabella Karlsson
Section 2: Filmic Interventions
Chapter 6: Mother(less) Exiles: The New Woman’s Absence from the Migration of the Expressionists to Hollywood
Michele Rozga
Chapter 7: Go West, Young Men: Teutonic Myths and American Westerns Blazed Path for the Acceptance of Nazism in Germany
Cathy M. Jackson
Chapter 8: “What Pain It Was to Drown”: Quotidian Meets Tragic in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea
Page R. Laws
Chapter 9: Shifting Affiliations: Kinship Formation through Othering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Christopher Hansen
Section 3: Civic Interventions
Chapter 10: “Son, I Am Not Coming Here Anymore”: Migrations, Loss, Separation, Trauma, and the Underground Railroad
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander
Chapter 11: Contested Affiliations: The Migration of US American War Resisters to Canada
Sarah J. Grünendahl
Chapter 12: “No Asylum from the Germans”: Policies of Deterrence and the Early West German Refugee Movement
Andreas Kewes
Chapter 13: Contesting Home, Nation, and Beyond: The Digital Space of New Migrants from Post-Gezi Turkey
Mine Gencel Bek
Chapter 14: Religion, Family, Community, Difference: Immigrant Millennials in Cologne, Germany
Aprilfaye T. Manalang
Chapter 15: “Space,” “Aliens,” and the “Race” to Belong: Changing Geographies and Moving Borders in Europe and the Americas
Geoffroy de Laforcade
Offering numerous fresh insights on migration, diaspora, and exile, this book is as timely as it is thought-provoking. Taking the familiar trope of the 'Mother of Exiles' from Emma Lazarus' public poem as starting point, it combines original work from a transdisciplinary group of scholars who approach migration and exile from the perspectives of social, literary and cultural studies as well as history and philosophy. What emerges is an intense exchange of ideas akin to what Achille Mbembe has called 'world-thinking', which can be truly transformative.
— Astrid Böger, Universität Hamburg