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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction: Migration, Mobility and the Redefinition of National Literatures in a Global Context -- A Sense of Order Amidst the Turbulence of Migration -- Migration and Changes to Constructs of National Identity -- Fictions of Migration in the Redefinition of National Literatures -- The Role of National Differences and Postcolonialism in the Emergence of Fictions of Migration -- Fictions of Migration and the Cosmopolitan Outlook -- Aim and Structure -- References -- 2 A Cosmopolitan Revision of the Postcolonial "Home" in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Foreigners -- Cosmopolitan Approaches to the Fissures and Fusions of Postcolonialism and Globalisation -- The Cosmopolitan Outlook of Unhomely Lives in Foreigners and A Distant Shore -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 From Exilic to Mobile Identities: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality -- Changes in Migration and the Cosmopolitanisation of Literature -- Colum McCann's Cosmopolitanisation of the Irish Novel -- Dialogic Engagement with Post-9/11 Fiction -- The Transformation of National Reality by the "Average Migrant" -- Formal Connections with Fictions of the Global and the Irish Literature of Exile -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 "Memories of Lost Things": Narratives of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea and Gravel Heart -- In Pursuit of "a Little Kindness" in By the Sea -- "Unfit to Live or Die?": Figurative Imprisonment of the Afropolitan Migrant in Gravel Heart -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Against the Fear of Complexity: Ethical and Aesthetic Engagement with De-racialising the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak's Honour -- Ethical Engagement: (Re)Envisioning the Muslim Migrant in the British Context and Honour.

"The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "age of anxiety." The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe. With its multidisciplinary approach, this volume sheds light on the need to view the interrelationship between different crises and their associated affects as crucial in attaining a more nuanced understanding of the aetiology and effects of the current "age of anxiety." This multidisciplinary scrutiny of the interrelationship of twenty-first-century fears, anxiety and crises signals an original engagement with these complex phenomena in order to make their emergence and profound effects on contemporary society more comprehensible. The timeliness of the thematic focus and the rigorous in-depth analyses make this collection relevant to students and academics within the fields of sociology, literary and cultural studies, political science and anthropology, as well as to those in European studies and global studies"--

"The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living in exceptional times, as captured in the recurrent claim that we live in the "age of anxiety." The main aim of this collection is to analyse, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the causes and consequences of the current dominance of the discourse of fear, anxiety, and crisis through the experience of distinct and often interdependent moral panics in twenty-first-century Europe. With its multidisciplinary approach, this volume sheds light on the need to view the interrelationship between different crises and their associated affects as crucial in attaining a more nuanced understanding of the aetiology and effects of the current "age of anxiety." This multidisciplinary scrutiny of the interrelationship of twenty-first-century fears, anxiety and crises signals an original engagement with these complex phenomena in order to make their emergence and profound effects on contemporary society more comprehensible. The timeliness of the thematic focus and the rigorous in-depth analyses make this collection relevant to students and academics within the fields of sociology, literary and cultural studies, political science and anthropology, as well as to those in European studies and global studies"--