The Refugee as the New Nomad: Reading Helon Habila's <em>Travellers</em> (2019) and Mohsin Hamid's <em>Exit West</em> (2017) as Literature of Mobility

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Nomadworlds in Refugee Literature as Literature of Mobility: Defining the ParametersMobilities, literature, and culture seem to be increasingly intertwined in recent literary and cultural discourse. Marian Aguiar et al., for instance, remind us that, as mobilities studies covers a "wide range of movements, from the largescale technologies of global travel to transnational interconnections," it "operates at multiple scales of meaning" (2019, 2). These multiple scales of meanings are vividly refracted in refugee literature, which is a profound meditation on the nomad and their world. Although Jessica Bruder imagines nomadland as a domain of "a new kind of wandering tribe" (2017, i) whichWinter Journals for personal use only / no unauthorized distribution