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Vagabond Capitalism Produces Modernity as Migration Vagabond Capitalism Produces Modernity as Migration
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From Tourist-Narrator to Homo Beatus: Variants of the Migrant From Tourist-Narrator to Homo Beatus: Variants of the Migrant
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Vagabonds and Tourists Share the Universal Condition of Precarity Vagabonds and Tourists Share the Universal Condition of Precarity
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Narrative and Poetic Resources Offer a Creative Response to Precarity Narrative and Poetic Resources Offer a Creative Response to Precarity
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Epigraph: McDonald’s, Fès, Morocco; July 2016 Epigraph: McDonald’s, Fès, Morocco; July 2016
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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1 Byron’s Ambivalent Modernity: Touring and Forced Migration in Don Juan
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Published:February 2019
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Abstract
The first chapter argues that Byron’s Don Juan (1819-1824) anticipates current conversations of refugee status and migration. Byron’s revision of the epic form suggests that modern epic must operate in a world ruled by what Cindi Katz calls “vagabond capitalism,’ a world in which human beings are disabled as moral and political agents. Byron’s epic satire presents migration through a split lens, juxtaposing the aristocratic narrator’s witty sophistication with Juan’s hapless, erotic physicality. The forced migration of the poem’s hero, Juan, is presented through the voice of Byron’s aristocratically urbane narrator—a voice that appears to eschew the vulnerability of the slave or refugee. Over the course of the epic, their differences dissolve, as both figures suffer from precarity. Ultimately, Byron’s satire undermines distinctions between tourists and vagabonds, and unravels the imagined independence of the nation-state along with the aristocrat’s imagined freedom from exile and forced migration.
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