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This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals after WWII, using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Edward Said to Homi Bhabha, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation, without falling into mental ghettoisation.

Middle Eastern literature. --- British literature. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Fiction. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Middle Eastern Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literary History. --- Literary Theory. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Near Eastern literature --- Philosophy --- English fiction --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Immigrants' writings, English --- Exiles' writings --- Collective memory in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. --- English immigrants' writings --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing examines contemporary cultural representations of transforming identities in the era of increasing global mobility. It pays particular attention to the ways in which cultural encounters are experienced affectively and discursively in migrant literature. Divided into three parts that deal with refugee writing and displacement, migration and memory, and new European identities, the volume develops current methodologies and shows how postcolonial studies can be applied to the study of cultural encounters. Writers studied include Simão Kikamba, Ishmael Beah, Madhur Jaffrey, Diana Abu-Jaber, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, and Monica Ali, and several refugee writers.

English literature --- Immigrants' writings, English --- American literature --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Cultural fusion in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Immigrants' writings, American. --- Immigrants' writings, English. --- History and criticism --- Minority authors. --- History and criticism. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Memory as a theme in literature --- English immigrants' writings --- American immigrants' writings --- Immigrants as literary characters --- Minorities --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Immigrant authors --- Comparative literature. --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature --- Memory in literature --- Travel in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Cultural fusion in literature --- Minority authors --- Littérature anglaise --- Écrits d'immigrants anglais --- Littérature américaine --- Ecrits d'immigrants américains --- Déplacement (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Voyage dans la littérature --- Immigrants dans la littérature --- Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs issus des minorités