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Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850

Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850

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Literary CriticismGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1474440355
ISBN13: 9781474440356
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Recovers a comparative literary history of migration
This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences -- real or imagined -- of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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