In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude towards new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented.
Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University and Head of Humanities at Utrecht University College. She is the author of Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (Suny, 2004) and The Postcolonial Cultural Industry (Palgrave, 2014). She is also editor of Gender, Globalisation and Violence. Postcolonial Conflict Zones (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Migrant Cartographies (Lexington Books, 2005) with Daniela Merolla, Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2011) with Marguerite Waller, Deconstructing Europe (Routledge, 2011) with Bolette Blaagaard.
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Mapping Europe: Theoretical Interventions Chapter 3 Mapping the Mind: Borders, Migration, and Myth Chapter 4 The Politics of the Perception of Human Movement Chapter 5 A Cat in a Kipper Box or, the Confession of a 'Second Generation Immigrant' Chapter 6 Virtual Multiculturalism: The Case of Contemporary Britain Chapter 7 One Bangle Does Not Jingle: Cultures, Literatures, and Migration in a Globalizing World Part 8 Writing Across the Borders: New Literatures in Europe Chapter 9 Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier Chapter 10 From Guest Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of German-Turkish Literature Chapter 11 Between Foreign and Floating Signs: The Language of Migrant Subjects Chapter 12 Roots and Routes: Diaspora, Travel Writing, and Caryl Phillips's Sounding of the Black Atlantic Chapter 13 On Narrative Voice and the Deconstruction of Home in Migrant Literature Chapter 14 'The Risks Migrating Words Take.' Some thoughts on the Afrikaans Poetry of Elisabeth Eybers in a context of transmigration Part 15 Mind the Gap! Cultural Trans/formations Chapter 16 Street Culture: Dead End or Global Highway? Chapter 17 Digital Imagination and 'Migrant' Websites Chapter 18 'London Stylee': Recent Representations of Postcolonial London Chapter 19 The Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present: Cultural Memory, Gender, and Race in Dutch Cinema Chapter 20 Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy Chapter 21 Outlandish Cinema: Screening the Other in Italy