Migrancy as Metaphor

Abstract

While migration marked the twentieth century, it continues to inhabit in variuos forms the current century too and does not seem to decelerate in the future. Perhaps for this reason, novelists have highlighted and incorporated migrancy as crucial tenet of human existence. This essay presents the perspective of Salman Rushdie with respect to contemprary global migrancy as depicted in his novels and discussed in his non-fictional writings. Through he shares the topic with Günter Grass, Milan Kundera and others, the complex and insighful discussion by Rushdie may serve as framework to analyse the phenomen within and among countries. Further, a depth study of migrancy might approach the realm of anthropological constant, re/constructing it as a human prerequisite to walk on nimble feet. It would hence constitute a prolegomenon to empirical case studies. Hence the present study, gives special attention to migrancy as both voluntary and forced, thus concretinzing, as far as possible, the novelistic configurations in Rushdie's works. Literay imagination enhances and complements lived realities which on social, political, legal, and economic analysis may be restrained by evidentiary requirements.