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"This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Nomads in literature.

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"Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but 'thickened' as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, anticipations, and idealizations of both migrants and native inhabitants that experiences of migration bring into contact with each other. Migration makes place overdetermined, turning it into the mise-en-scene of different histories. Hence, movement does not lead to placelessness, but to the intensification and overdetermination of place, its 'heterotopicality.' At the same time, place does not unequivocally authenticate or validate knowledge, but, shot-through with the transnational and the transcultural, exceeds it ceaselessly. Our contributions take us to the migratory settings of a fictional exhibition; a staged political wedding; a walking tour in a museum; African appropriations of Shakespeare and Sophocles; Gollwitz, Germany; Calais, France; the body after a heart transplant; refugees' family portraiture; a garden in Vermont; the womb. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Paulina Aroch, Astrid van Weyenberg, Sarah de Mul, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Sudeep Dasgupta, Wim Staat, Maria Boletsi, Griselda Pollock, Alex Rotas, and Murat Aydemir."--BOOK JACKET.

Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Nomads in literature.

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Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, anticipations, and idealizations of both migrants and native inhabitants that experiences of migration bring into contact with each other. Migration makes place overdetermined, turning it into the mise-en-scène of different histories. Hence, movement does not lead to placelessness, but to the intensification and overdetermination of place, its ‘heterotopicality.’ At the same time, place does not unequivocally authenticate or validate knowledge, but, shot-through with the transnational and the transcultural, exceeds it ceaselessly. Our contributions take us to the migratory settings of a fictional exhibition; a staged political wedding; a walking tour in a museum; African appropriations of Shakespeare and Sophocles; Gollwitz, Germany; Calais, France; the body after a heart transplant; refugees’ family portraiture; a garden in Vermont; the womb. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Paulina Aroch, Astrid van Weyenberg, Sarah de Mul, Annette Seidel Arpaci, Sudeep Dasgupta, Wim Staat, Maria Boletsi, Griselda Pollock, Alex Rotas, and Murat Aydemir.

Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Literature. --- Nomads in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in art.

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Nomads in literature --- Anthropological linguistics --- Ethnolinguistique --- Folk literature [African ] --- History and criticism --- Epic literature [African ] --- Oral tradition --- Africa

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On taxe souvent les romancières contemporaines de langue française d’intimisme, de clôture narrative sur la sphère du privé et du corporel, ou encore de focalisation sur l’affect, le familial et le psychique. Pourtant, que ce soit d’un point de vue textuel, générique, social ou politique, cette réduction de la littérature contemporaine féminine à l’auto-enfermement ne rend pas compte d’un champ créatif beaucoup plus complexe. De fait, les reformulations du genre romanesque et le travail sur la langue fluidifient les frontières symboliques traditionnelles, tandis que les déclassements par le haut ou le bas, les métissages identitaires et les traversées d’espaces géographiques, corporels ou politiques indexent un nomadisme généralisé. Enfin, les tentatives de reconfigurations de pratiques éditoriales et critiques séculairement focalisées sur les productions masculines ou franco-françaises signalent un questionnement des enjeux de pouvoir. Pour mettre au jour l’ensemble de ces déplacements, quatre écrivaines ont proposé également des inédits sur leur conception personnelle du nomadisme littéraire : Régine Detambel, Annie Ernaux, Pierrette Fleutiaux et Vénus Khoury-Ghata.

French literature --- Authors, French --- Nomads in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- Feminist theory. --- Feminism --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- French authors --- Philosophy --- écrivain --- XXIème siècle --- littérature francophone --- roman --- littérature --- femmes