ABSTRACT Migritude literature focuses predominantly on migration from the global south to the countries of Europe and North America and the everyday life forged in these new contexts. The lived experience of migration, however, often involves travelling back for brief interludes to the places left behind. Three contemporary documentations of going back to the cities of the global south abandoned in favour of the US or Canada – Tout bouge autour de moi (Everything moves around me) by Dany Lafarrière, Matter of Rats by Amitava Kumar, and Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole – elucidate the narrators’ confrontations with the economic disparities that structure life in Port-au-Prince, Lagos, and Patna. Through a comparative reading of these texts of return to India, the Caribbean, and Africa, this article argues that these authors produce “reverse travel narratives”, which reframe conventional writing about travel and turn it into a form that portrays the uneven spaces produced under capitalism.

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在自己的土地上的旅行者：移民文学中的逆向运动

摘要 移民文献主要关注从全球南部到欧洲和北美国家的移民以及在这些新环境中形成的日常生活。然而，迁移的生活经历通常涉及返回到留下的地方的短暂插曲。回到被美国或加拿大遗弃的南半球城市的三本当代文献——丹尼·拉法里埃的 Tout bouge autour de moi（我周围的一切都在移动），阿米塔瓦·库马尔的《老鼠问题》，以及每一天都是为了Teju Cole 的《小偷》——阐明叙述者与构成太子港、拉各斯和巴特那生活的经济差距的对抗。通过比较阅读这些返回印度、加勒比和非洲的文本，