Precarious Crossings

<div>With global debt labor and environmental crises on the rise the precarious position of people in the Global South has become a significant force moving people across countries continents and around the world. Through a comparative study of contemporary trans-Atlantic immigrant narratives in French Spanish and English Alexandra Perisic offers an account of a multilingual Atlantic under neoliberalism. More specifically <i>Precarious Crossings: Immigration Neoliberalism and the Atlantic </i>examines how contemporary authors from the Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America-including Roberto Bolaño Giannina Braschi Maryse Condé Fatou Diome Marie Ndiaye and Caryl Phillips among others-have reconceptualized the Atlantic from a triangular space into a multipolar one introducing new destinations for contemporary immigrants and establishing new Atlantic connections.<br>  <br> Perisic argues that in traveling beyond the postcolonial route that connects former colonizer and former colonized these authors also shift their focus from cultural difference and national belonging to precarity-a condition characterized by a lack of economic and social stability and protection-as a shared characteristic under global neoliberalization. She demonstrates how contemporary Atlantic narratives reveal the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology-thereby showing how they further participate in Atlantic literary and cultural dialogues and push against literary conventions of various genre as they explore the complexities of a globalized Atlantic.<br>  </div>