Refugee Genres Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge
Refugees Genres is a timely, interdisciplinary and far-reaching exploration of a figure at once over-scripted and barely-legible: the contemporary refugee. An international assembly of scholars and critics conduct deep probes into the ways this figure – hyper-visible, politically weaponised, often p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form
- Part I. Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry
- 2. “How Do we Survive the Memory of So Much Waiting?”: Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee
- 3. Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs
- 4. Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s
- Part II. Performance and Documentary Media
- 5. Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys
- 6. Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe
- 7. On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy
- Part III. The Refugee Novel
- 8. Splitting Apart, Coming Together: Bildung (…shards…) into Mosaic-Being through Performance of the Refugee and Forced-Migration Bildungsroman
- 9. Shattered Forms: Transnational Migration Literatures in Melilla and the Balkan Refugee Route
- 10. “Slowly Into Darkness”: Postmemory in Alison Pick’s Far to Go and Natasha Solomons’ Mr Rosenblum’s List
- 11. Responding to Refugee Children: Transfigurations of Genre and Form in Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive
- Part IV. Coda
- 12. The Refugee Imaginary.