Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer

This chapter aims to analyse how the intersection of travel and exile in Négar Djavadi’s novel Désorientale (2016) motivates cultural exchanges through movements of conflict and contact. After having established a framework of exile and travel in relation to narrative, cultural encounters and transfer, the analysis firstly focuses on the metaphorical and physical levels of travel and exile as developed in the novel. Exile and travel are intertwined and a necessary part of the female protagonist’