Goethe's version of the scholar's fateful wager with Mephistopheles
inspires the central sequence of Faust, mapped onto the figure of
the migrant who flees a post-colonial legacy of fire, displacement
and climate destruction for a life of eternal striving. As Parmar
asks in 'The Winnowing Shovel': 'How is striving itself, as an idea
built into literary models and real-life stereotypes of the good
immigrant or the model minority, how might striving-in the Faustian
sense-provide a way of thinking about heroism, tragedy (modern and
ancient) and migratory grief? Who chooses to leave and why, who
attempts to return, who stays on, who, to borrow from Bhanu Kapil's
image of reverse migration, is made psychotic in a national space,
who is this hero who journeys, who strives and for what? To be
visible or invisible? As others have looked to the Faust legend for
ways to explore the insatiability of man's appetites, the questions
I put to Goethe's version specifically bring together three
strands: striving as a fear of and countermeasure against
mortality; a critique of globalisation and technology; and the
female element underlying male aggression, destruction and desire.'
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