Migrancies and Modernities in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier

Abstract

Postcolonial fictions of dislocation and exile are many, ranging from Sam Selvon and Bessie Head to Salman Rushdie. They map the fates, paths and histories of various migrant groups, often backtracking the routes of slavery and the Middle Passage. By thematizing the representation of history, postcolonial historical novels also pay attention to resistance to European and Western colonization and traditional historical writing.