The book examines the representation of masculinities in contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. 

Exploring works by Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen (China) and Kim Thúy (Vietnam), it charts the extent to which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a different position in the new society.

The book was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.

The other books shortlisted were:

Literatures originally written in English

• Albrecht Classen, Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World (De Gruyter, 2021)
• Devoney Looser, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Bloomsbury, 2022)
• Joseph S. O’Leary, Joysis Crisis: Rereading James Joyce, Theomasochistically (Chisokudō, 2021)
• Talia Schaffer, Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction (Princeton University Press, 2021)
• Nicholas Seager, The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Literatures written in languages other than English

• Sabiha Huq, The Mughal Aviary: Women’s Writings in Pre-Modern India (The University Press Limited, 2022)
• Christophe Schuwey, L’Atlas Molière (Les Arènes, 2022)
• Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula (Beara Historical Society, 2021)

The winners will be announced in December.