Drawing on his current book project, ”Tales of Unsettlement,” in this presentation Mani situates the figure of the refugee and the forced migrant at the center of contemporary novels.

Mani proposes that “refugee” narratives reveal much more than just the plight and flight of refugees, which has largely been the focus of contemporary studies. Instead, Mani argues that novels of refuge open doors to reframe our thinking of histories of European colonialism and its morphed manifestations in contemporary Europe.

Moving narratives of refuge from a marginal to a central space, Mani underlines, opens up possibilities of thinking of the European novel as novel as a site of new political and aesthetic examination of race-, religion-, caste- and class-based discriminations in the contemporary era.

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