The Emergence of the ‘Foreign’ Author and the Bewilderment of the Reader/Critic
The Emergence of the ‘Foreign’ Author and the Bewilderment of the Reader/Critic

Summary/Abstract: Migrant Literature is one of the more recent phenomena that, in the wake of postcolonial literature, challenges traditional modes of reception such as they have been established by the Western “République Mondiale des Lettres”. The impact of these literary centripetal genres and movements from the peripheries of the political, economical and cultural spheres of influence is such that it scratches at the foundations of dominant Western theoretical discourse and thought. This paper will, by using the example of Turkish-German author Zafer Şenocak and Anglo-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, show how these authors try to break out of the pre-constructed categories, into which they had been forced at one point in their careers and how, by deliberately causing the bewilderment of the critic, managed to put an end to an easy and arbitrary labelling of their work and their literary persona.

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