In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional insight, this volume explores the most recent literature on migration as seen from different European viewpoints. This book fills a conspicuous void in migration literature, as there are no comprehensive books on migrant literatures in Europe that address the full range of complexities of colonial legacies and linguistic productions.

Sandra Ponzanesi is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and Research Fellow at Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Daniela Merolla is Lecturer in Africa Literatures, Department of Languages and Cultures of Africa at University of Leiden.

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Mapping Europe: Theoretical InterventionsChapter 3 Mapping the Mind: Borders, Migration, and MythChapter 4 The Politics of the Perception of Human MovementChapter 5 A Cat in a Kipper Box or, the Confession of a 'Second Generation Immigrant'Chapter 6 Virtual Multiculturalism: The Case of Contemporary BritainChapter 7 One Bangle Does Not Jingle: Cultures, Literatures, and Migration in a Globalizing WorldChapter 8 Writing Across the Borders: New Literatures in EuropeChapter 9 Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub's The CarrierChapter 10 From Guest Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of German-Turkish LiteratureChapter 11 Between Foreign and Floating Signs: The Language of Migrant SubjectsChapter 12 Roots and Routes: Diaspora, Travel Writing, and Caryl Phillips's Sounding of the Black AtlanticChapter 13 On Narrative Voice and the Deconstruction of Home in Migrant LiteratureChapter 14 'The Risks Migrating Words Take.' Some thoughts on the Afrikaans Poetry of Elisabeth Eybers in a context of transmigrationChapter 15 Mind the Gap! Cultural Trans/formationsChapter 16 Street Culture: Dead End or Global Highway?Chapter 17 Digital Imagination and 'Migrant' WebsitesChapter 18 'London Stylee': Recent Representations of Postcolonial LondonChapter 19 The Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present: Cultural Memory, Gender, and Race in Dutch CinemaChapter 20 Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern ItalyChapter 21 Outlandish Cinema: Screening the Other in Italy