Writing Migration through the Body

• Main Author: Bond, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; European literature.; Literary Theory.; Contemporary Literature.; European Literature.

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 studie...

Table of Contents:

• 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.