Displaced Lives: Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and
Plays from Four Continents

Guest-edited by Alok Bhalla and Ming Di.
Series Editor Frank Stewart.

The dislocation of people in the twenty-first century has been unprecedented. At the end of 2019, over 260 million people were living outside their countries of birth. Some are voluntary migrants, but others have been forced to relocate by violence, wars, persecution, hunger, or extreme weather events. Millions more are mentally and spiritually uprooted and isolated because of PTSD, depression, addiction, and aging. The question of how they are perceived and treated should be everyone’s concern.

The displaced are a statistical category, but their lives, emotions, and hopes are made vividly real in these powerful and intimate works of literature by more than thirty writers from four continents. Many of the authors are themselves exiles, members of immigrant families, or witnesses to the effects of displacement on loved ones. Authors are from Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Macedonia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S.

The art selections in the volume are from Majnu Ka Tilla Diaries, a portfolio by photographer Serena Chopra.

208 pp., winter 2019 (31:2), $25
ISBN 978-0-8248-8641-7
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