The case of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses allows Taperek to show how the cultural image of the migrant is constructed around notions of the monstrous and demonic. Discourses on the migrant show striking similarities with discourses on the monstrous in cultural practice and language. Drawing on postcolonial theory and deconstruction, Taperek analyses ways of representing the bodies and cultural identity of migrants in the literary text as well as in related visual representations. The 'monstralization' of the Other that results from the atavistic fear of the unknown is inscribed into the context of the current migrant crisis.

Migrants Emigre literature Hybridity Monstrosity postcolonialism

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