The aim of this essay is to, first, highlight a normative, hegemonic construction of migrants, which casts desirable migration in entrepreneurial, individualist terms while criminalizing, punishing, and exploiting those who fail to embody this ideal. I then discuss literary examples of what I call unruly migration narratives, which variously disrupt and undermine such construction. The texts I discuss are the novel A Life Apart (2008) by Neel Mukherjee; three short stories from Ayiti by Roxane Gay (2011); and the novel The Buddha in the Attic (2011) by Julie Otsuka.
Unruly Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal World-System: Subverting the "Success Story" in Neel Mukherjee, Roxanne Gay, and Julie Otsuka
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2025
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The aim of this essay is to, first, highlight a normative, hegemonic construction of migrants, which casts desirable migration in entrepreneurial, individualist terms while criminalizing, punishing, and exploiting those who fail to embody this ideal. I then discuss literary examples of what I call unruly migration narratives, which variously disrupt and undermine such construction. The texts I discuss are the novel A Life Apart (2008) by Neel Mukherjee; three short stories from Ayiti by Roxane Gay (2011); and the novel The Buddha in the Attic (2011) by Julie Otsuka.
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