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A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingIntroduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Introduction: Literary Anthropology,... [What happens when authors thematize movement, migration, or “minority situations,” articulating notions of self, society, and belonging through narratives? The introduction interrogates what concepts including “minor literature,” “minority,” dialogue, hybridization, and historicity mean for the interplay between literature and reality. The assembled chapters use “interface ethnography” and “fieldwork on foot” in the close reading of a broad selection of literary sources and processes of dialogic engagement. The contributions discuss German-speaking Herta Müller’s perpetual minority status in Romania; Bengali-Scottish Bashabi Fraser and the potentiality of poetry; vagrant pastoralism and “heritagization” in Puglia, Italy; the self-representation of Norwegian and European Muslims in the acclaimed novel of Zeshan Shakar; the confident autobiographical narratives of Loveleen Rihel Brenna and the artist collective Queendom in Norway; the notion of the “immigrant” as a permanent guest in Spanish children’s literature; and Slovenian cross-Atlantic roots-searching in Argentina. Storytelling has generative and transformative potentials, and literary anthropology is well equipped to examine the multiple contexts that literature engages.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingIntroduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging

Editors: Fagerlid, Cicilie; Tisdel, Michelle A.

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Chapter 4 is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapter.
ISBN
978-3-030-34795-6
Pages
1 –17
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3_1
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Abstract

[What happens when authors thematize movement, migration, or “minority situations,” articulating notions of self, society, and belonging through narratives? The introduction interrogates what concepts including “minor literature,” “minority,” dialogue, hybridization, and historicity mean for the interplay between literature and reality. The assembled chapters use “interface ethnography” and “fieldwork on foot” in the close reading of a broad selection of literary sources and processes of dialogic engagement. The contributions discuss German-speaking Herta Müller’s perpetual minority status in Romania; Bengali-Scottish Bashabi Fraser and the potentiality of poetry; vagrant pastoralism and “heritagization” in Puglia, Italy; the self-representation of Norwegian and European Muslims in the acclaimed novel of Zeshan Shakar; the confident autobiographical narratives of Loveleen Rihel Brenna and the artist collective Queendom in Norway; the notion of the “immigrant” as a permanent guest in Spanish children’s literature; and Slovenian cross-Atlantic roots-searching in Argentina. Storytelling has generative and transformative potentials, and literary anthropology is well equipped to examine the multiple contexts that literature engages.]

Published: Jan 31, 2020

Keywords: Belonging; Migration; Minority; Minor literature; Narratives; Dialogic engagement

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