Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi

Writing Home

James Davey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Oct '25

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Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home explores how contemporary British poets navigate the complex and often contested concept of ‘home’. Focusing on the works of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi, as well as other contemporary poets, this book examines how ‘home’ is constructed through language, memory, and lived experience, existing as both a physical place and an evolving process of becoming. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diasporic perspectives, and literary representations of place, the book investigates themes of exile, hybridity, and the intersections of personal and national identity. In doing so, it asks: how does poetry articulate the complexities of belonging in a world increasingly shaped by migration, displacement, and shifting cultural identities?

In this engaging and timely book, poet and critic James Davey brings an exceptionally rich set of interpretations to the complex and multidimensional subject of 'home'.

– Professor Jean Sprackland, Professor of Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi: Writing Home is a timely and in-depth poetical and intellectual investigation into Alvi’s and Hardi’s poetry and the ways in which they imagine home and belonging. The book’s perceptive and thoughtful exploration of migration and diaspora in poetry offers original and new insights into the complex relationship between poetry and the experience of displacement as part of the shifting meaning of home and belonging. In a world where the division between ‘us and them’ is becoming ever more polarised, Davey’s insightful examination of poetic representations of home offers a space for envisaging new encounters in language and in life.

– Dr Angelica Michelis, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

ISBN: 9781041048749

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Weight: 490g

168 pages