Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe

Jopi Nyman is professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus.Johan Schimanski is professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo.Carmen Zamorano Llena is professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Temporalities of Cross-Border Migration, Jopi Nyman, Johan Schimanski, and Carmen Zamorano LlenaPart One: Pasts and Futures: Migrants in/to EuropeChapter One: Border Temporalities, Temporal Borders: Migratory Border-Crossings in Literature and Other Discourses, Johan SchimanskiChapter Two: Spatiotemporal Palimpsests, Remembered Times, and Hybrid Temporalities in Literary and Graphic Narratives on Europe’s Refugee ‘Crisis’, Olga MichaelChapter Three: “I’ll never let myself die in a strange land that doesn’t want me”: A Life Course Approach to the Temporal Subjectivities of Older Migrants in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift, Carmen Zamorano LlenaPart Two: Eldorados in Future: Migrants in/to SpainChapter Four: Temporalities of Crossing in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Jopi NymanChapter Five: Lost Pasts and Rescued Traumas: Migration and Temporality in Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla, Carolina León VegasChapter Six: Time, Caves, and Other Limboscapes in Three Contemporary Migrant Narratives, Carles Magrinyà BadiellaPart Three: Living through Times of MigrationChapter Seven: Investing in Immigrants as a Permanent Resource: The Local Integration Strategies of a Peripheral Town, Ágnes Németh and Sarolta NémethChapter Eight: The Narrative Practice of Ruth Reese: Blackness, Temporality, and Braiding Time in Norway, Michelle A. TisdelAbout the Contributors