Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures

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Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.

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This monumental book, investigating central questions about how complex, transnational, diasporic identities are shaped in the context of displacement and mobility, demonstrates how literary accounts offer guides for understanding the culturally particular in global contexts. The multidirectional gaze of the scholars and the texts discussed provides a dynamic model for understanding identity in transit. Since the publication of Edward Saids Orientalism, many have asked, where are the voices that challenge East-West binaries Readers will find those voices here, in a profound exploration of memory, home, and displacement.

-- Amy Schuman, The Ohio State University

Global Identities in Transit is a timely and interdisciplinary collection that invites us to rethink the formation of identity in an era of increased cultural encounters and mobility. By challenging nation-based thinking and emphasizing the plurality and polycentricity of the world, this important volume sheds much-needed light on multiple migrations, transnational narratives, and ethics of representation in ways that promote equity and challenge the legacies of nationalisms, colonialism, and dehumanization.

-- Jopi Nyman, School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland

This is a welcome contribution to diaspora studies that sheds new light on well-known writers and introduces more recent ones.

-- Wal S. Hassan, author of Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature

Author Bio

Bouchra Benlemlih is professor of English and postcolonial studies at Ibn Zohr University.

Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University.