Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi : Writing Home (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

Davey, James

Routledge（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041048749
• DDC分類 821.009353

Full Description

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of 'home'. Focusing on the works of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi, as well as other contemporary poets, this book examines how 'home' is constructed through language, memory, and lived experience, existing as both a physical place and an evolving process of becoming. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diasporic perspectives, and literary representations of place, the book investigates themes of exile, hybridity, and the intersections of personal and national identity. In doing so, it asks: how does poetry articulate the complexities of belonging in a world increasingly shaped by migration, displacement, and shifting cultural identities?

Contents

Acknowledgements

Credits

Introduction

Part 1: The foundations of 'Home'

Chapter 1: Different Notions of Home

(1.1) Conceptualising Home

(1.2) Postcolonial Perspectives

Chapter 2: 'Home' in theory

(2.1) The Experiential

(2.2) The Imaginative

(2.3) Homi Bhabha, Hybridity, and Third Space Theory

(2.4) Gendered Perspectives

(2.5) The Loss of Home

Part 2: Reading 'Home'

Chapter 3: Contemporary British Poetry

(3.1) 'Home-based' poetry in English

(3.2) Post-colonial Poetries

Part 3: Writing 'Home'

Chapter 4: Hidden Worlds: Moniza Alvi

(4.1) The Poetics of Uncertainty

(4.2) The Embodied Identity

(4.3) The Mythopoetic

(4.4) Map Making

Chapter 5: My English Years: Choman Hardi

(5.1) Memory and Exile

(5.2) My English Years

(5.3) The Poetics of Witness

(5.4) Considering the Women

Conclusions

Index