The Precarious Balance of Refugees: Rupture and Connectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2017) and Helon Habila’s Travelers (2019)

• Published in: Sillages critiques Vol. 32
• Main Author: Guignery, Vanessa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de recherche VALE 20.12.2022; Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
• Subjects: connections; fragmentation; Habila (Helon); precariousness; refugee; vulnerability; vulnérabilité; réfugié; Habila (Helon); littérature postcoloniale; refugee; postcolonial literature; vulnerability; Hamid (Mohsin); fragmentation; connections; précarité; precariousness

Contemporary novels about refugees often question the appropriateness of traditional narrative forms to relate stories of forced migration which involve a fragmentation of the self and of one’s sense of reality. Writers opt instead for forms which are as disjointed as the experience of refugees them...