Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland

Carmen Zamorano Llena is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She was previously Lecturer in English at University of Lleida, Spain. She is Series Co-editor of the Culture Identity Studies series with Peter Lang and Literary Editor of Nordic Irish Studies. Her co-edited collections include Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach (2010), Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (2013) and Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).

• 1. Introduction: Migration, Mobility and the Redefinition of National Literatures in a Global Context.- 2. A Cosmopolitan Revision of the Postcolonial ‘Home’ in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and Foreigners.- 3. From Exilic to Mobile Identities: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality.- 4. ‘Memories of lost things’: Narratives of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Gravel Heart.- 5. Against the Fear of Complexity: Ethical and Aesthetic Engagement with De-racialising the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak’s Honour.- 6. Solidarity through the Bare Life of Migrants and “noeuds de mémoire” in Rose Tremain’s The Colour and The Gustav Sonata.- 7. ‘A map of bird migration’: Redefinitions of National Identity through Transnational Mobility and Multidirectional Memory in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky.- 8. Concluding Remarks: Timespace and Affective Networks in Contemporary Fictions of Migration.