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Title Representations of war, migration, and refugeehood : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Daniel H. Rellstab and Christiane Schlote
Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Strategies of Seeing: War and the Visual Arts; 1 A Documentary Photographer's Strategies of Representation in Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (1996) and in No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (2001); 2 Documentary, Memory, and the Iraq Syndrome; 3 Beyond Mass Media: Representations of War between Art and Journalism; PART II Refugees, Language, and Resistance; 4 The Promise and Threat of the Shibboleth: Linguistic Representations of Asylum Seekers
5 Refugees? No Refugees? Categorizations of Migrants in the Wake of the Arab Spring in Swiss Online News and Comments6 Narrating Change in and against Time in Colombia; 7 At Home with the Unhomely: Vietnamese and Iraqi Narratives of Invasion, Occupation, and "Resettlement"; PART III Global Theaters of War: Staging Conflict and Conciliation; 8 Questions on Performances: In Place of War; 9 Fostering Connectedness through Narrative Involvement: Intercultural Community Theater in Contexts of Migration and Refugeehood; 10 Dramatizing the Congo: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid Workers, and Gender
PART IV Interrupting Narratives: War, Displacement, and Beyond11 Pens and Swords: Creative Writing and Poetry in Post-Conflict and Displacement Settings; 12 Reconfiguring Place and Identity in Roma Tearne's Narratives of War and Refuge; 13 Refugees, Gender, and Secularism in South Asian Literature and Cinema; List of Contributors; Index
Summary "War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts, the media, and in academic, public, and political discourses. The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee, and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as 'war, ' 'refuge(e), ' 'victim, ' 'border, ' 'home, ' 'non-place, ' and 'dis/location.' Contributing authors engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding war, migration, and refugeehood as well as with our own responses to the ways in which war and its multifarious effects and repercussions in society are being framed, propagated, glorified, or contested. This volume initiates an interdisciplinary debate which re-evaluates the relationship between war, migration, and refugeehood and their representations"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject War in literature.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
War in mass media.
Refugees.
Violence -- Sociological aspects
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Refugees
refugees.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Emigration and immigration in literature
Migration, Internal, in literature
Refugees
Violence -- Sociological aspects
War in literature
War in mass media
Flüchtling Motiv
Krieg Motiv
Künste
Literatur
Massenmedien
Form Electronic book
Author Rellstab, Daniel H., editor.
Schlote, Christiane, editor.
ISBN 9781134656769
1134656769
9781315884370
1315884372