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Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity, and the Maternal

By Katarzyna , Nowak

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2007
ISBN
9783631556276
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28685365 bytes)
Series
Literary and Cultural Theory vol. 25
Pages
158\78
Time added
2022-05-12 10:28:16

Description

The book analyzes traveling post-colonial subjects in recent prose by women writers of South Asian origin, tracing the links between thetropes of femininity, silence, loss, and migration. Traveling is understood as an act of generating meaning out of movement, displacement andmigration, while the position of traveling subjects is seen as that of a paradoxical liminality, yet carrying the insurgent potential of finding newmodes of agency. The argument evolves from crossing boundaries of one's own body towards radical transgression of borders of identity.Before the traveler is able to transgress the limitations exhorted by forces beyond a single person's grasp, she has to establish the boundariesof her own identity - only in order to shed its steadiness and discover liberating instability.

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