Traveller in one's own land
Reverse movements in migritude literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sushmita Sircar (0000-0001-9422-8150) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 775-788 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2020.1775387 |
| OpenAlex | W3036946377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Migritude literature focuses predominantly on migration from the global south to the countries of Europe and North America and the everyday life forged in these new contexts. The lived experience of migration, however, often involves travelling back for brief interludes to the places left behind. Three contemporary documentations of going back to the cities of the global south abandoned in favour of the US or Canada – Tout bouge autour de moi (Everything moves around me) by Dany Lafarrière, Matter of Rats by Amitava Kumar, and Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole – elucidate the narrators’ confrontations with the economic disparities that structure life in Port-au-Prince, Lagos, and Patna. Through a comparative reading of these texts of return to India, the Caribbean, and Africa, this article argues that these authors produce “reverse travel narratives”, which reframe conventional writing about travel and turn it into a form that portrays the uneven spaces produced under capitalism
Archaeology · Geography · Pure land · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Philippine History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · History
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |