Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)
This article explores Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) combining principles pertaining to social geography, affect theory, and (post)migration studies with postcolonial theory. It aims to highlight how Hamid’s use of magical realism triggers political, philosophical, and socio-emotional refl...
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This article explores Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) combining principles pertaining to social geography, affect theory, and (post)migration studies with postcolonial theory. It aims to highlight how Hamid’s use of magical realism triggers political, philosophical, and socio-emotional reflections by condensing in the story arc the intercultural and intersubjective processes that characterise the migratory experience and the postmigrant condition. Firstly, it investigates how Exit West incorporates magical realism to represent the psychoemotional dynamics of migration and to problematize the concept of cosmopolitanism; secondly, it discusses how the novel promotes a re-thinking of migration identities and experiences in terms of affective transnationality; thirdly, it points out how the refugee communities represented in the novel are manifestations of a chaos-world in which identity formation is shaped by sociocultural encounters, multilingualism, media use, and processes of affiliation.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ed6a44ae3fa41b39b7204c27031bf072025-08-20T02:30:42ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariIl Tolomeo2499-59752024-12-0126110.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/004journal_article_19364Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017)Tosi, Valerie0Università di Pisa, Italia This article explores Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) combining principles pertaining to social geography, affect theory, and (post)migration studies with postcolonial theory. It aims to highlight how Hamid’s use of magical realism triggers political, philosophical, and socio-emotional reflections by condensing in the story arc the intercultural and intersubjective processes that characterise the migratory experience and the postmigrant condition. Firstly, it investigates how Exit West incorporates magical realism to represent the psychoemotional dynamics of migration and to problematize the concept of cosmopolitanism; secondly, it discusses how the novel promotes a re-thinking of migration identities and experiences in terms of affective transnationality; thirdly, it points out how the refugee communities represented in the novel are manifestations of a chaos-world in which identity formation is shaped by sociocultural encounters, multilingualism, media use, and processes of affiliation. http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/004Chaos-world. Exit West. Mohsin Hamid. Multiplicity. Refugee novel. Transnationalism |
| spellingShingle | Tosi, Valerie Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) Il Tolomeo Chaos-world. Exit West. Mohsin Hamid. Multiplicity. Refugee novel. Transnationalism |
| title | Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) |
| title_full | Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) |
| title_fullStr | Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) |
| title_short | Inhabiting a Chaos-World: Refugee Transnational Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) |
| title_sort | inhabiting a chaos world refugee transnational identities in mohsin hamid s exit west 2017 |
| topic | Chaos-world. Exit West. Mohsin Hamid. Multiplicity. Refugee novel. Transnationalism |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2024/01/004 |
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