{"id":16420,"date":"2011-09-22T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:16:22","slug":"beyond-liverpool-1957-travel-diaspora-and-migration-in-jamal-mahjoubs-the-drift-latitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16420","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub\u2019s The Drift Latitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021989411409813\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub\u2019s The Drift Latitudes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jcl.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jcl.sagepub.com\/content\/46\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 46, Number 3<\/a> (September 2011)<br \/>\npages 493-511<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021989411409813\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0021989411409813<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jopi Nyman<\/strong>, Professor<br \/>\n<em>University of Eastern Finland, Finland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay discusses the novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16417\" target=\"_blank\">The Drift Latitudes<\/a><\/em> (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamalmahjoub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamal Mahjoub<\/a>. By telling the stories of the German refugee Ernst Frager and his two British families, I argue that Mahjoub\u2019s novel utilizes the tropes of transnational travel and migration to present a critique of discourses of purity and nationalism. Through its uncovering of silenced family narratives, the novel hybridizes British and European identities and underlines the need to remember the stories of ordinary people omitted from official histories. As the novel\u2019s supposedly British families appear to possess transnational links with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean<\/a>, the novel reconstructs European identity as transnational and in need of historical reassessment. As a further contribution to the importance of hybrid identity, the story of black cultural identity and its construction in post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">Second World War<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> is told in tandem with the importance of black music as a means of constructing black diasporic identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jcl.sagepub.com\/content\/46\/3\/493.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub\u2019s The Drift Latitudes The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 46, Number 3 (September 2011) pages 493-511 DOI: 10.1177\/0021989411409813 Jopi Nyman, Professor University of Eastern Finland, Finland This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. 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