The Many Voices of Europe: Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Europe (Issn) (Culture & Conflict, 15)

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and new forms of identity and community, assertions of regionalized identity and declarations of multiculturalism and multilingualism. These essays respond to this critical moment by analyzing the literature of migration as a (re)writing of European subjects. They ask fundamental questions from a variety of theoretical and critical standpoints: How do migrants write new identities into and against old national (meta)narratives? How do they interrogate constructions of identity? What kinds of literary experiments are emerging in this unstable context, e.g. in the graphic novel and avant-garde film? This collection makes a unique contribution to contemporary European literary studies by taking an interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective, thereby addressing readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and stimulating new research on the ambitious writing and thinking taking place across the borders of Europe today. Contents 7 Introduction 9 Part I: Crossing Borders: (Re)configuring Identities 21 Linked Security and “Rhetorical Ethics”: Breaking Frames and Opening Cracks of Identification through the Narrative Fissures of Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes’s breach (2016) 21 Negotiation/négation of Double Names in Assia Djebar’s “Le corps de Félicie” 38 Image and Identity in the Diasporic Graphic Autobiography Persepolis 48 Part II: Shifting Frontiers of National Belonging 61 New Cultures of Italian Migration 61 Integration and the French Banlieue: Reading Ahmed Djouder’s Désintégration (2006) and Philippe Faucon’s Désintégration (2012) 70 Translocal Constellations: Navigations of Mobility and Emplacement and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Story “The Courtyard in the Mirror” 81 Part III: A New Europe On Different Grounds 93 Raúl Ruiz’s Adaptation of The Blind Owl: An Exilic Model for Europe 93 The Post-Yugoslav Literature of Dubravka Ugrešić 111 Occident and Orient: “Poetics of Movement” in the Works of Zafer Şenocak 123 Part IV: Maxi Obexer, Playwright, Novelist, Activist 137 Refugee and Migrant Voices On and Off the Documentary Theater Stage: Recent Works by Maxi Obexer 137 The Longest Summer 158 “Revealing That Which Is Hidden:” Interview with Maxi (Margareth) Obexer: Playwright, Novelist, Activist 167 Notes on Contributors 179 Index 183