Abstract
ABSTRACT In an ironic reversal of colonial mobility, the 21st century has marked an increasing flow of bodies from periphery to metropole – or global south to global north – which has transformed imaginative literary productions within the postcolonial space from an emphasis on nation to a more transnational focus on migrant experiences. The literature of migration and mobility has, in turn, been one of the means through which articulations of nation (and pathological nationalisms) in sites of the global north have been sharply critiqued. This paper engages the rewriting of “nation” through the agency of global migration in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West. Mobility will be read as a mode of resistance to the panoptic power of the nation state that disciplines the migrant into an essentialized alterity. While the concept of “panopticism” is drawn from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, it will further differentiate the idea by exploring “technological panopticism” in Exit West.
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