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1 online resource (xiv, 642 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Refugees in modern world history / Peter Gatrell -- Theories of the refugee, after Hannah Arendt / Ned Curthoys -- A genealogy of refugee writing / Arthur Rose -- Genres of refugee writing / Anna Bernard -- Sexual and gender-based asylum and the queering of global space: reading desire, writing identity and the unconventionality of the law / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Morality and law in the context of asylum claims / Anthony Good -- The politics of the empty gesture: frameworks of sanctuary, theatre and the city / Alison Jeffers -- Docu/fiction and the aesthetics of the border / Agnes Woolley -- Crossings, bodies, behaviors / Liam Connell -- The digital border: the media or refugee reception during the 2015 'Migration Crisis' / Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou -- The "Dead Road', displacement and the recovery of life-in-common: narrating the African conflict zone / Maureen Moynagh -- 'What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?': memoir of the Aporia of refuge in Hisam Matar's "The Return" / Norbert Bugeja -- 'A man carries his door': affective displacement and refugee poetry / Douglas Robinson -- Reframing climate migration: a case for constellation thinking in the writing of Teju Cole / Byron Caminero-Santangelo -- Memories and meaning of refugee camps (and more-than-camps) / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh -- Writing the camp: death, dying and dialects / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh -- Reel refugees: inside and outside the camp / Madelaine Hron -- Zoopolitics of asylum seeker marine deaths and cultures of anthropophagy / Joseph Pugliese -- The Mediterranean sieve, spring and seametery / Hakim Abderrezak -- 'Island is no arrival': migrants' "islandment' at the borders of Europe / Mariangela Palladino -- At sea: hope as survival and sustenance for refugees / Parvati Nair -- Networked narratives: online self-expression from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Mary Mitchell -- Refugee writing, refugee history: locating the refugee archive in the making of a history of the Syrian War / Dima Saber and Paul Long -- Digital biopolitics, humanitarianism and the datafication of refugees / Btihaj Ajana -- "The Messenger": refugee testimony and the search for adequate witness / Gillian Whitlock and Rosanne Kennedy -- Home and law: impersonality and worldlessness in J.M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus" and Jenny Erpenbeck's "Gehen, Ging, Gegangen" / Daniel Hartley -- Autobiography of a ghost: home and haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's "The Refugees" / Mireille Rosello -- Homing as a co-creative work: when home becomes a village / Misha Myers and Mariam Issa -- 'Another politics of the city': urban practices of refuge, advocacy and activism / Jonathan Darling -- The welcome city? / Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite -- In the city's public spaces: movements of witnesses and the formation of moral community / André Grahle -- Open/closed cities: cosmopolitan melancholia and the disavowal of refugee life / Sam Durrant |
| Summary |
Includes thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Refugees.
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Refugees in literature.
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Refugees in mass media
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Refugees
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refugees.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Refugees
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Refugees in literature
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Politics and Government.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cox, Emma, editor.
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Durrant, Sam, 1970- editor.
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Farrier, David, 1979- editor.
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Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 1965- editor.
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Woolley, Agnes, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474443210 |
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1474443214 |
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9781474443227 |
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1474443222 |
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