Metasporic Canons. Nomadic Writing and Micropolitics of the Planetary
Metasporic Canons. Nomadic Writing and Micropolitics of the Planetary

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to introduce three categories in treating the complex phenomenon of canons’ negotiation from the perspective of literature of migration seen from within and from without, notably the nomadic writing, the hybrid paradigm, and the metasporic identities. Its main focus is on the temporal displacement and the “messy” character of a type of writing that resists canonicity and systematization. This type of writing proposes translational subjectivities and a sense of identity framed rather by re-worlding belongings than by stable identities. Starting from Des Rosiers’ text on Metaspora: Essays on Intimates Homelands, it extends the debate towards what we would call a micropolitics of the planetary and specifically on several “hybrid” and nomadic writers belonging to the Romanian literature, Panaït Istrati, Bujor Nedelcovici, Andrei Codrescu, and Norman Manea.

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