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The unsettled self: creative practice and the nomadic poetics of a contemporary flâneur
Migrants and their children are often ‘unsettled’ from their ancestral homelands, caught between identification with one culture and another. This chapter explores the experience of in-between-ness that this kind of relationship generates. The author focuses on his own connections to Venice and the Veneto: a site in which he identifies himself as an insider/outsider—a familiar-stranger to his own past. By referring to theories of nomadism, in-between-ness and translation, it is argued that writing in situ is a creative act that connects the self to various terrains; linguistic, literary, historical, ancestral, real and imagined. In so doing, the writer enacts and embodies what can be thought of as a contemporary form of flânerie. This form of creative wandering is in turn a mechanism through which poetry is created, affording the author a method through which he maps subjectivity onto the terrain across which he roams, and a means to engage in processes of de- and re-colonisation that ‘resettle’ the self in time and space.
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Interdisciplinary unsettlings of place and space: conversations, investigations and researchChapter number
1Pagination
19 - 30Publisher
SpringerPlace of publication
SingaporePublisher DOI
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978-981-13-6729-8Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.Extent
18Editor/Contributor(s)
S Pinto, S Hannigan, B Walker-Gibbs, E CharltonUsage metrics
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