Overview
- Discusses the instrumental, symbolic and productive characteristics of narratives in literature with regard to form and content
- Ties together literary and anthropological theory to explore the entanglement of narrative, subjectivities, and community formations
- Demonstrates that narratives are inseparable from broader socio-political processes
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their “minority” background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use “interface ethnography” and “fieldwork on foot” to analyze a broad selection of literature and processes of dialogic engagement. The chapters discuss German-speaking Herta Müller’s perpetual minority status in Romania; Bengali-Scottish Bashabi Fraser and the potentiality of poetry; vagrant pastoralism and “heritagization” in Puglia, Italy; the self-representation of European Muslims post 9/11 in Zeshan Shakar’s acclaimed Norwegian novel; the autobiographical narratives of Loveleen Rihel Brenna and the artist collective Queendom in Norway; the “immigrant” as a permanent guest in Spanish-language children’s literature; and Slovenian roots-searching in Argentina. This anthology examines the generative and transformative potentials of storytelling, while illustrating that literary anthropology is well equipped to examine the multiple contexts that literature engages. Chapter 4 of this book is available open access under a CC By 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
Reviews
Ellen Wiles, author of Invisible Crowd (2017) and Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts (2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cicilie Fagerlid was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Library Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, at the time of writing. Her previous research includes performance poetry on cosmopolitan and working-class Paris and the creation of new ways of being British Asian, both at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway, where she has taught extensively. Currently, she writes ethnography from public libraries.
Michelle A. Tisdel holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, USA. Her research interests include heritage production and discourses of belonging in Norway and Cuba. She conducted long-term research on Cuban museums and Afro-Cuban heritage production. Tisdel works as a research librarian at the National Library of Norway and specializes in migration and heritage themes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging
Book Subtitle: Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes
Editors: Cicilie Fagerlid, Michelle A. Tisdel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34795-6Published: 31 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34798-7Published: 31 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34796-3Published: 30 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 210
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, Global/International Culture, Cultural Studies