Migration and Literature : Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad

Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists. We Live In An Age Of Migration And More And More Authors Have Migrant Backgrounds. Migration And Literature Offers A Thorough And Thought-provoking Examination Of The Thematic And Formal Role Of Migration In Four Contemporary And Canonized Novelists: Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, And Jan Kjaerstad. This Book Examines How These Novelists Reflect, Problematize, And Resolve The Problems Set By The Migratory World And Analyzes How The Novels Employ Discursive Strategies Which Emphasize Their Migratory And Homeless Form.--jacket. Prolegomena: Towards A Literature Of Migration -- Günter Grass -- The Birth Of The Trilogy -- Heroes Against Absurdity -- Territories And Histories -- Linguistic Diarrhea -- Return Of The Storyteller -- Milan Kundera -- Heroes Of Non-belonging -- The Modern Homecoming -- The Art Of Composition -- Return Of The Authorial Narrator -- Salman Rushdie -- Heroes Of Disorientation -- Language Deterritorialized -- Dissemination -- Rhizomatic Forms -- Jan Kjærstad -- Narratorial Oscillations -- Norway Localized -- Kaleidoscopic Form And Human Identity -- Epilegomena: Literary Studies And The Canon. Søren Frank. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [217]-227) And Index. We live in an age of migration and more and more authors have migrant backgrounds. Migration and Literature offers a thorough and thought provoking examination of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists, Gnter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjrstad. This book examines how thesenovelists reflect, problematize, and resolve the problems set by the migratory world and analyzes how the novels employ discursive strategies which emphasize their migratory and homeless form. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Prolegomena: Toward a Literature of Migration....Pages 1-30 Günter Grass....Pages 31-77 Milan Kundera....Pages 79-127 Salman Rushdie....Pages 129-176 Jan Kjærstad....Pages 177-196 Epilegomena: Literary Studies and the Canon....Pages 197-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-235