Deterritorialized Lives Migration, Identity, and the Politics of Space in Contemporary Fiction (e-kitap)

Chapter 1 reconstructs the intellectual history of deterritorialization, tracing its itinerary from the anti‑Oedipal politics of Deleuze and Guattari to the disjunctive ‑scapes of Appadurai. I argue that, across these traditions, deterritorialization names both a material displacement—bodies in motion across borders—and an epistemic rupture that unsettles the very categories through which we parse subjectivity, nation, and memory. 

Chapter 2 applies this framework to Harare North, foregrounding how the novel’s hybrid Shona‑inflected English and its shifting narrative voice enact the protagonist’s refusal (or inability) to reterritorialize in London. His descent into psychosis, I contend, literalizes the political violence that erupts when colonial cartographies collapse but new solidarities fail to take root. 

Chapter 3 turns to The Other Hand, where Cleave ounterposes Little Bee’s self‑inventive strategies of survival to Sarah’s seemingly secure British domesticity, only to show both women caught in the same global circuitry of labor, media spectacle, and precarious citizenship. 

The conclusion synthesizes these readings to propose a literary ethics of hospitality—one attuned to the “lines of flight” that link metropolitan centers to postcolonial peripheries.