Migrants shaping Europe, past and present: Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures

book: Migrants shaping Europe, past and present

Open Access Published by Manchester University Press 2022

Migrants shaping Europe, past and present

Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures

Edited by: Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526166180

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About this book

This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. Iberia/Maghreb, Sicily/Lampedusa and Calais provide key examples for composing this new chapter in cultural history.

Author / Editor information

Helen Solterer is Professor of French and Francophone & Romance Studies at Duke University

Vincent Joos is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global French Studies at Florida State University

Reviews

'Highly imaginative in conception and design, this book oscillates between medieval and modern to consider the migrant, the border-breaker, the refugee (lacking the romantic, time-honoured status of “the exile”). Decentring anglocentric approaches, its contributors consider how written and visual arts might variously offer, for those lacking homelands, some place to live.'
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

Topics

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos Open Access Download PDF	1
PART I: A premodern cultural history
1 The astrolabe From “mathematical jewel” to cultural connector Pedro M. P. Raposo Open Access Download PDF	19
PART II: Migrating in Spanish
2 The expulsion of the Moriscos, 1609–14 Still more questions than answers James S. Amelang Open Access Download PDF	45
3 Translating migrant precarity in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal Anna Tybinko Open Access Download PDF	58
PART III: Migrating in Italian
4 “The world is my homeland” Exile and migration, from Ibn Hamdîs to Dante Akash Kumar Open Access Download PDF	79
5 Superman in Italy The power of refugee artists Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Open Access Download PDF	96
6 Porta di Lampedusa, porta d’Europa Contemporary monumentality, entropy, and migration at the gateway to Europe Tenley Bick Open Access Download PDF	131
PART IV: Migrating in French
7 Calais-enclave Fictions for locking in and opening up, 2018–1346 Helen Solterer Open Access Download PDF	171
8 Calais-campscape A short history of immigration deterrence at the French–British border Vincent Joos and Eric Leleu Open Access Download PDF	197
PART V: Arts of migration
9 In Transit Ellen Raimond, Marianne Wardle, Elvira Vilches, Alán José and Pedro Lasch Open Access Download PDF	229
10 Cornered Raquel Salvatella de Prada Open Access Download PDF	255
Index Open Access Download PDF	280

Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Illustrations
- Other: 113 colour illustrations
Keywords: Multilingualism; Ceuta Melilla; Spanish Muslims; Calais; Lampedusa Sicily; Migrant Literature; Cultural Studies; Public Art; Social Mobility; Migration

eBook

Published: November 8, 2022
ISBN: 9781526166180