Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

This collection pushes migration and "e;the minor"e; to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their "e;minority"e; background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use "e;interface ethnography"e; and "e;fieldwork on foot"e; to analyze a broad selection of literature and processes of dialogic engagement. The chapters discuss German-speaking Herta Muller's perpetual minority status in Romania; Bengali-Scottish Bashabi Fraser and the potentiality of poetry; vagrant pastoralism and "e;heritagization"e; in Puglia, Italy; the self-representation of European Muslims post 9/11 in Zeshan Shakar's acclaimed Norwegian novel; the autobiographical narratives of Loveleen Rihel Brenna and the artist collective Queendom in Norway; the "e;immigrant"e; as a permanent guest in Spanish-language children's literature; and Slovenian roots-searching in Argentina. This anthology examines the generative and transformative potentials of storytelling, while illustrating that literary anthropology is well equipped to examine the multiple contexts that literature engages. Chapter 4 of this book is available open access under a CC By 4.0 license at link.springer.com.