The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

The RoutledgeCompanion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the ¿age of migration¿ on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world.

The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains sections on key terms and critical approaches in the field; important genres of migration literature; a range of forms and trajectories of migration, with a particular focus on the global South; and on migration literature¿s relevance in social contexts out