Description: Migration, Diaspora, Exile examines narratives of affiliation and escape that imagine migration to and in Europe and the Americas in terms of kinship, community, and refuge. They investigate a broad range of literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present cons...
Brief description: Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in American Studies at Ovidius University, Romania.
Review Quotes: "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