James Davey

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi (eBook, ePUB)

Writing Home

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040452417
• Artikelnr.: 75330977

Autorenporträt

James Davey is a researcher of place and identity in modern and contemporary poetry. He holds BA and MA degrees from Bath Spa University, where he also taught Creative Writing for several years, and earned his PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he currently teaches research skills at the University of the West of England, International College.

Inhaltsangabe

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