emigrée context

• Originally born in London, Rumens has lived around the UK and Europe, notably Russia.
• Rumens noted Anna Akhmatova nad Osip Mandelstam as two of her influences.

  • These were Russian poets.
• Much of Rumens' work is centered around the social-political customs within foreign countries.

  • The Emigrée particularly investigates the emotional aspects of this.
• The Emigrée doesn't conform to a particular historical context (the city and the country are never named or identified) to allow it to universally focus on the emotional experience of emigration.

  • Emigration has been common historically and still occurs frequently in the present day; thus, its relevance endures throughout time.