Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile

Prologue — Margarita Georgieva
Introduction — Catalina Florina Florescu
1.Mobility, Virality, and Security in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission — Tim Gauthier
2.Mothers Without Frontiers and Their Affective Maps in The Flower Bridge by Thomas Ciulei and Code Unknown by Michael Haneke — Oana Chivoiu
3.Flowering Exile: Chinese Disaspora and Women’s Autobiography — Da Zheng
4.Diasporic Iranian Writing in English — Sanaz Fotouhi
5.Cultural Hermeneutics: Andrei Codrescu as “The Romanian who translated himself into an American” — Christene D’Anca
6.The Forked Tongue of Chinese-English Translation at MSU (Mandarin-Speaking University?), circa 2015 — Sheng-mei Ma
7.El Mundo Zurdo de Gloria Anzaldúa: Healing Sueños of Nepantlera Activism — Mary Louisa Cappelli
8.Transnational Perspectives on Romanian Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Ioana Baetica Morpurgo’s Imigranţii — Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
9.Disabling the Binaries, Enabling the Boundaries: Home-Abroad Divide in the European Migration Crisis — Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi
10.“Strike Their Roots into Unaccustomed Earth” in an Era of New Genetics: Diasporic Identity Politics and Genealogy Re-Considered in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” — Hsin-Ju Kuo
11.Cracked Spaces in-between Brackets: An Analysis of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée and Trinh Minh-ha’s elsewhere, within here — Winnie Khaw
12.“[F]oreigners, foreigners, my God”: Language and Cinema in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight — Yanoula Athanassakis
13.Mise en abîme with My Immigrants — Catalina Florina Florescu
Epilogue: Immigration, Transformation, Innovation — Maria Hadjipolycarpou

The collection of essays in Professors Catalina Florescu and Sheng-Mei Ma’s volume suggest that we are locals among locals in local societies making up the global mix. As locals, we are each one; locals throughout the globe, are equally one; communities of locals, make up the global; and the global is, though becoming increasingly complex, one. One yet many, many yet one. The sooner we learn to embrace the global as well as the set of all locals, the less we will blindly practice our knowing ignorance, our ignorantly presumed knowing. Perhaps then and only then, if we are fortunate, we may come to know enlightenment. This volume is indeed a timely read, given our current milieu.