Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Examines contemporary migration narratives across multiple literary genres, such as non-fiction, memoir, novel and essay
- Encompasses representations of personal experiences, as well as political and ideological narratives
- Explores a variety of migration experiences in writing, from asylum seeking to relocating for professional reasons
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About this book
This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. The primary material ranges from personal experiences of migration for professional purposes and of being undocumented without access to citizenship, to novels that provide fictional representations of migrants and their complex lives. This study asks how migration, as portrayed in contemporary writing, addresses personal, social, and political consequences of being on the move. The book is organised around central themes such as the status of being undocumented, or aspirations and expectations of both migrants themselves as well as their new environs. The material examined has been published from 2016 onwards, addressing the aftermath of the migrant crisis 2015-2016 as well as the Trump administration 2017-2021.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lena Englund is Senior Researcher in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her previous books, South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (2021) and Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa (2023), were both published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Storying Contemporary Migration
Book Subtitle: Representation, Aspirations, Advocacy
Authors: Lena Englund
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62003-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62002-7Published: 25 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62005-8Due: 08 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-62003-4Published: 24 August 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 235
Topics: Literature, general, Migration, Contemporary Literature