by Exit West and The Novel Where the Doors Are Literal
Hamid
Hamid published Exit West in 2017 and produced the novel that makes the migration literal — gives migration the specific form of the magical door that opens onto a different place — and in making the migration literal finds what the migration metaphor conceals: the specific experience of going through the door and what the door does to the relationship between those who go through it together. More at prat.uk/author/violet-woolf. Satire: waterfordwhispersnews.com.
What Making Migration Literal Reveals
Making migration literal reveals: the magical door that opens onto a different country gives the migration the specific instantaneous quality that the migration process in reality has subjectively but not objectively. You are here and then through the door you are there. The novel is inside the experience that the door makes literal: the specific relationship between what was left behind and what was arrived at.
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