Entanglements and Dispersals Occidental Power and the Vicissitudes of Displacement

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • K. Bystrom
  • A. Harris
  • A.J. Webber
Book title South and North
Book subtitle Contemporary Urban Orientations
ISBN
  • 9780815396840
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781351047043
Series Literary cultures of the global south
Chapter 13
Pages (from-to) 237-252
Number of pages 16
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This chapter first considers how cities in the North function as stabilized locations in which movements from the South are framed through the language of integration and acculturation. It then constructs an alternative understanding of the North–South relation by exploring specific narratives which disorient the discursive stabilization of migration: the case of the asylum-seeker Mauro, caught between the Dutch state and the sub-national location of the provincial town; and Margaret Mazzantini’s novel of migration between Libya and Italy, Morning Sea (2011).
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351047043-13
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