{"product_id":"drift-net-the-aesthetics-of-literature-and-media-in-migration-paperback","title":"Drift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Campanioni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday's aesthetic strategies to compose content and identity across digital media are neither new nor exclusively digital, but emerged from migration. In \u003ci\u003eDrift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris Campanioni theorizes an aesthetics of transmedia as a framework for civic activism, while showing how migrants have forecasted and reshaped new media practices and norms, producing a political subjectivity that resists subjectification. As borders, global inequality, racism, and xenophobia proliferate, migrants continue to enact the possibilities of something else, beyond being spoken about and spoken for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a model Campanioni calls a \"migratory text,\" \u003ci\u003eDrift Net \u003c\/i\u003eadvances a theory of literature and art born in translation that calls into question established theories of world literature, national literatures, literary periodization, and translation itself. Through an analysis of works born in translation and produced in passage, detention, and exile, Campanioni utilizes this model to read creatively across a wide range of social and political formations, from the experience of his parents' exiles to alternative housing initiatives and asylum reform efforts throughout Europe, including the largest LGBT+ refugee center in the world. Drawing on a mixed methodology of qualitative interviews with asylum applicants and shelter directors, textual analysis, and autoethnographic narrative, \u003ci\u003eDrift Net \u003c\/i\u003etraces literary developments alongside contemporary social and political interventions. This approach proposes interventions on the organizational levels of asylum, integration, public housing, and membership. It also marks the ways migrant creators have reformulated subjectivity through the same genres and modes that have contributed to their devaluation as minoritized subjects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrift Net \u003c\/i\u003eboth deepens and broadens our conceptualization of migrant literature, and recovers an understanding and application of transmedia that predates digital cultures. Campanioni offers a wide-ranging study of texts including Edward Said and Jean Mohr's \u003ci\u003eAfter the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Edgar Garcia's \u003ci\u003eSkins of Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Seghers's \u003ci\u003eTransit\u003c\/i\u003e, Francis Ponge's \u003ci\u003eSoap\u003c\/i\u003e, Walid Raad's \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas Group\u003c\/i\u003e, Klára Hosnedlová's embroidered paintings, Reem Karssli and Caroline Williams's \u003ci\u003eNow is the Time To Say Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, Cornelia Schleime's paper prints, and more. \u003ci\u003eDrift Net\u003c\/i\u003e formulates the \"migratory\" as a site of artistic production, resistance, and possibility, where theory is not an end but the beginning of tools and practices that might help researchers, instructors, and organizers to develop their strategies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Campanioni \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer of Creative Writing and Media Studies at Pace University. His work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including\u003ci\u003e Diacritics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cinema and Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLatin American Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.93 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837644562629,"sku":"9781643150802","price":46.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/zSrvtU2M-I9781643150802.webp?v=1771282109","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/drift-net-the-aesthetics-of-literature-and-media-in-migration-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}