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Highlights
- Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility.
- Author(s): Kevin Potter
- 384 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Modern
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About the Book
Introduces a new concept of 'kinopoetics' to transform how we read migrancy and literary formBook Synopsis
Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself? Poetics of the Migrant calls upon the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to invent a theory and method for analysing migrant literature. The text uncovers patterns of movement that migrant texts enact and create - in other words, a movement-oriented poetics. Poetics of the Migrant understands movement as the defining force of human history; and the migrant is the primary figure of cultural and political transformation. Migrant literature makes it possible to transform how we process and interpret social history through social motion. Perhaps, from here, we can imagine a different world: one where movement and migrancy are legible and thinkable.
Review Quotes
We are living through one of the largest human migrations ever recorded, and among our thoughts should be the pathos and creativity of its travellers, treated here with admiration and scholarly dedication. Proposing a unique movement-oriented methodology for making sense of the vast literary and poetic innovations happening all around us, this brilliant, well-researched and lucid book will be cited for years to come.
--Thomas Nail, University of Denver
