Nina McConigley: New Territories: Migration and Exile (January 2018)

From the Book of Exodus to Ovid’s Poetry of Exile, writers have long examined what it means to leave one’s country, to migrate to the unknown. Nina McConigley looks at how these migrations shape characters into new territories and internal spaces, noting “Any journey that has a geographical and social repositioning asks our characters to reconsider themselves, to examine not only the self, but the other.” Authors discussed include Moshin Hadid, Agha Shahid Ali, Tayeb Salih, and others.