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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300033403321

Autore

Bond Emma

Titolo

Writing Migration through the Body / / by Emma Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319976952

3319976958

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages)

Collana

Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture, , 2946-4846

Disciplina

850.80920691

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

European literature

Literary Theory

Contemporary Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction. 'Trans-scripts' -- 2. Chapter 2. 'Signing with a scar': Inscriptions, Narration, Identity -- 3. Chapter 3. Trans-gender, trans-national: Crossing binary lines -- 4. Chapter 4. Trans-national mothering: Corporeal trans-plantations of care -- 5. Chapter 5. Revolting folds: Disordered and disciplined bodies -- 6. Chapter 6. Absent bodies, haunted spaces -- 7. Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility. At its core stands a selection of recent migration stories in Italian, which are brought into dialogue with related material from cultural studies and the visual arts. Occupying no single disciplinary space, and drawing upon an elaborate theoretical framework ranging from phenomenology to anthropology, human geography and memory studies, this volume explores the ways in which the skin itself operates as a border, and brings to the surface the processes by which a sense of place and self are described and



communicated through the migrant body. Through investigating key concepts and practices of transnational embodied experience, the book develops the interpretative principle that the individual bodies which move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories - and also histories and possible futures - are enacted.