Figures of the Migrant

Part I Overview

1. The roles of literature and the arts in representing the migrant and migration - Siobhan Brownlie

Part II Critiques of Definitions, Representations and Ideologies

2. Representations of child 'migrants' in Akli Tadjer's Le Porteur de Cartable - Fiona Barclay

3. Bridging migratory fault-lines: Francis Alys's performance at the Strait of Gibraltar - David Alvarez

4. Mediterranean connections: representing the migrant's journey in Le voyage des ames by Mounsi - Jonathan Lewis

Part III Deeper Insights into Being a Migrant

5. Writing the voice of the 'other': Maggie Gee and Antonio Manzini narrating migrant care workers - Nicoletta Di Ciolla and Serena Guarracino

6. Visual explorations of a new life: language, identity and landscape in El futuro perfecto and Ingen Ko Pa Isen - Carmen Herrero

7. 'I love, you fear, we leave': representations of emotion and migrancy in Berni Searle's Home and Away and Seeking Refuge - Nicola Cloete

8. The father as a figure of exile: desire and sublimation in Naomi Shihab Nye's 'My Father and the Figtree' - Redouane Abouddahab

Part IV Migration through Particular Prisms

9. SHE-menism: Girl-trafficking and the gendered experiences of forced migrations in Soji Cole's Embers - Julie Umukoro

10. 'Times are connected through land and bodies' in Native American literature: living landscapes in Toni Jensen and Layli Long Soldier - Wes Atkinson

Part V Trajectories for the Future

11. Screening young migrants and cosmopolitan mobility: Julie Bertuccelli's Cour de Babel - Isabelle Vanderschelden

12. Conclusion - Siobhan Brownlie and Redouane Abouddahab

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• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
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• Migração de imigração, emigração e

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