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urn:uuid:1841b54c-b495-4bb5-9bcf-054e5c393af3 03 15 9781685712815 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Crossings Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms 1 A01 Natalya Din-Kariuki Natalya Din-Kariuki is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she works on the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a particular focus on travel writing, transnational and transcultural encounters, and rhetoric and poetics. Her work has appeared in journals including the Review of English Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Textual Practice. 2 B01 Subha Mukherji Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests and publications range across Renaissance English literature, early modern law and drama, form and faith, literary epistemologies, migration, and contemporary Indian art. 3 B01 Rowan Williams Rowan Williams taught Theology in Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, and Yale. From 2002 to 2012 he was Archbishop of Canterbury, and from 2012 to 2020 Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has published widely on religion, literature, and politics, and was Chair of the development charity Christian Aid for eight years. He now lives in Wales, and is Chair of the Peace Academy/Academi Heddwch. Recent books include Justice and Love: A Philosophical Dialogue (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, with Mary Zournazi) and Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2021). 01 eng 00 562 03 23 anthropology 23 Cultural Studies+Critical Theory 10 LIT019000 23 Literary Studies 23 migration 10 SOC007000 23 Premodern 23 refugee crisis 10 SOC008000 23 decoloniality 23 early modern studies 23 asylum 23 exile 01 06 03 00 Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms brings together activists, artists, scholars, and migrants with diverse histories to explore what the experience of migration does with, and to, knowledge, and how its own ways of knowing find expressive form. As the volume’s authors think about physical and imaginative crossings, and the traversals and transactions of knowledge they entail, the book itself crosses and complicates disciplinary and formal boundaries and the barriers between critical and creative intervention. Crucially, it brings together voices and forms emerging out of the experience of dislocation with responses to the encounters it generates.The volume’s discussions begin in the early modern world, and move freely across periods to dwell on the urgent experience of migrancy in our own times, while also responding to an urgent need to connect the local with the global experience of migrant knowledge and migrant aesthetics. Crossings stakes the claim that creative art, backed by humanities-based thinking, can meet the imaginative and ethical demands that the unknowable reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments, institutions, and public discourse have calamitously failed to do. But aesthetic practice itself needs to be re-positioned if it is to rise to these political and human challenges, negotiating the points of friction between its own predilections and the matter of migration.Crossings offers “migrant forms” – art about migration, objects from migrant life shaped into artifacts, and migrant self-expressions – as the means of this imaginative re-orientation, and a tool for activating a radical alternative to economic models of social benefit. Crossings takes its place in an emergent ecology of migrant forms, both speaking to and participating in that ecology. punctum books 01 punctum books 04 01 20251003 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685712808 06 15 9781685712815 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01