Table of Contents
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 Alÿs’s performance at the Strait of Gibraltar - David Álvarez
4. Mediterranean connections: representing the migrant’s journey in Le voyage des âmes 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 På 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’ - Rédouane 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 Rédouane Abouddahab