A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Roots, Routes, and Rhizomes

Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging

Literary Anthropology: Literature as Source Material and Literary Production

The Social Role and Potentiality of Literature

Chapter 2: Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations

Transhumance: Between Practices and Words

Just A Deleuzian Glance

Transhumant Narratives and Representations

The Politics and Poetics of Heritagization

IL Tratturo : A Novel from the Limits

Wandering Storytelling, Transhumant Images and Other Vagrant Digressions

Between History, Literature and Ethnographic Restitution

Chapter 3: In Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller's Case

Introduction

Challenging Arborescent Structures and Deterritorialization

The Childhood as a Burden of the Cradle

The Maturity as the Burden of Altered Relations

The Burden of the Haunting of the Other Country

Minority Among Minority and Minority Among Majority

Corpus

Chapter 4: When Author Meets Audience: The Potentiality of Literature to Re-Narrate Selves, Belonging, and National Community

Introduction

"They Are Maybe the Most Defined Human Beings in Norway, but Defined By People From the Outside": Re-Narrating Selves and Belonging

The Great Immigrant Novel, Or Rather Homestead Prose From the Satellite Town? the Recreation of a National Community

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Biography, Descent, and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina

Introduction

Migration and Literature

The Slovenian Sociopolitical Context

Two Slovenian Family Biographies in the Current Argentinian Context

Final Remarks

Chapter 6: Narratives of Competence and Confidence: Self, Society, and Belonging in Norway

Introduction: Literature and Ethnographic Objects

Self, Individual, and Society

"Minority" Existence and Society

Self, Belonging, and Public Discourse

Conclusion: Socially Produced and Socially Productive: Confidence and Competence

Chapter 7: From Bengal to Scotland: Hybridity, Borders and National Narratives

Poetry and Literary Anthropology

Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism

Borders and Displacement

Reframing Scotland's Pedagogical National Narrative

Reframing Scotland's Performative National Discourse

Writing in a Minor Key: English (and Scots)

Conclusion

Chapter 8: The Production of the Immigrant as a Perpetual Guest

Bordering Tropes

(Im)Possible belongings

Postscript