286 results on '"*REFUGEES in literature"'
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2. Postdramatic and multimedia 'Depaysement': Myth and migration on stage and screen in Christiane Jatahy's 'Ithaque: Notre Odyssee 1'
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Strole, Nicholas A
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- 2022
3. Dedication 1
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Imran, M D
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- 2021
4. Between Remembering and Confession: A Refugee Narrative in Dina Nayeri's Refuge.
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Shymchyshyn, Mariya and Chernyshova, Svitlana
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REFUGEES in literature ,DISCOURSE ,IRANIAN American literature ,MEMORY ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This article focuses on the retrospective narrative in the Iranian American novelist Dina Nayeri's Refuge (2017). We argue that the novel's interpretations of acts of remembering, which presuppose confession and re-evaluation, define the ways of constructing the refugee identity of the main character, Niloo. Within the discourse of retrospection, the self appears in the mode of reflection over past events, and thanks to temporal distance, the self can verbalize changes in perception of the past self. Thus, retrospection becomes a psychological and narrative endeavor during which identity is created through the experience of re-evaluation. The interaction between then and now as well as their final convergence in the end of the novel result in the continuity of experience and coherence of identity. Niloo's ontology of becoming is possible through the re-living of the past, its interpretation, and its integration into the present. In other words, the possibility of reflection over experience is the very condition for her becoming. The main character concentrates on her meetings with her father in different cities (Oklahoma City, London, Madrid, and Istanbul) and her re-evaluation of her emotional experience during those meetings. These moments of re-evaluation explicate the dynamics of her identity construction, which shifts from a rejection of her past to an embrace of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Refugee Genres : Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge
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Mike Classon Frangos, Sheila Ghose, Mike Classon Frangos, and Sheila Ghose
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- Emigration and immigration in literature, Refugees in motion pictures, Emigration and immigration in motion pictures, Refugees, Emigration and immigration, Refugees in literature
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This volume brings together research on the forms, genres, media and histories of refugee migration. Chapters come from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches, including literature, film studies, performance studies and postcolonial studies. The goal is to bring together chapters that use the perspectives of the arts and humanities to study representations of refugee migration. The chapters of the anthology are organized around specific forms and genres: life-writing and memoir, the graphic novel, theater and music, film and documentary, coming-of-age stories, street literature, and the literary novel. Chapter(s) “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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- 2023
6. Writing in Times of Displacement : The Existential and Other Discourses
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Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Meera Chakravorty, John Clammer, Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Meera Chakravorty, and John Clammer
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- Refugees in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature
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This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose. Bringing together scholarly insights into literature about displacement and migration from Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the book interrogates the development frames of Western modernity and situates displacement within the discourse of disenfranchisement of citizens by nation-states. It explores the experiences, memories and expressions of displacement in literature and how literary works critique ethical and moral responsibilities of states and communities that often do not account for the loss which displacement causes to the health, education, career, or relationships of displaced people. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, philosophy, migration and diaspora studies, development studies, African studies and Asian studies.
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- 2023
7. The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives
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Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, and Vinh Nguyen
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- Refugees' writings--History and criticism, Refugees in literature, Refugees in motion pictures
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This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. Addressing key characteristics and thematics of refugee narratives, this Handbook examines how refugee cultural productions are shaped by and in turn shape socio-political landscapes. It will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners committed to engaging refugee narratives in the contemporary moment.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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- 2023
8. Fighting Over There : U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature
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Alaina Kaus and Alaina Kaus
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- American literature--20th century--History and, American literature--21st century--History and, War and literature, Refugees in literature, Military occupation in literature
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U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable “here” and an expendable “there.” In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn't have to fight “on the streets of our cities.” But what do the millions of people who live over “there” have to say about U.S. interventions and the displacement they provoke? In this pathbreaking study, Alaina Kaus analyzes literature by and about refugees who fled Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, in the wake of U.S. military occupation and economic intervention. Narratives by authors such as Lan Cao, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Demetria Martínez, Héctor Tobar, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, and Riverbend reveal contradictions in the human rights pledges that undergird U.S. foreign policy, which promote freedom while authorizing intervention and displacement, and favor market-based solutions over social justice and racial equality.
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- 2023
9. Climate Change: Ecological Refugees in "The Great Derangement" of India by Amitav Ghosh.
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S., Arunakumari
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DESERTIFICATION ,CLIMATE change ,ENVIRONMENTAL refugees ,AUTOMOBILE emissions ,CLIMATE change in literature ,ABSOLUTE sea level change - Abstract
Environmental refugees are people unwilling to leave their homes and societies as a result of the effects of climate change. The other disasters are caused by anthropogenic reasons, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Climate change has occurred many times since the formation of the Earth billions of years ago. Human activities that produce greenhouse gases, like burning fossil fuels (coal, gas), emissions from automobiles, industries, and deforestation, contribute to global warming. Glaciers and polar ice melt as a result of rising temperature brought on by climate change. Floods and sea-level rise are outcomes of climate change. Droughts and environmental deprivation, or the conversion of fertile land into deserts, that is, desertification, are further affected by increasing temperature. For example, Rising sea levels and drought will entirely submerge the land and decrease the fertility of the land, making it hard for individuals in the region to live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. Transcultural Memory of the Nation in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore.
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Kırpıklı, Deniz
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REFUGEES in literature ,IMPERIALISM in literature ,RACISM in literature ,MIDDLE passage (Slave trade) in literature - Abstract
This study argues that Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore (2003) uncovers Britain's transcultural memory of the imperial past through the journey of the refugee protagonist Solomon/Gabriel from Africa to England. The unlikely encounter between Solomon/Gabriel and Dorothy, a white Englishwoman, in a setting inhospitable to both of them opens up a narrative space to explore the imperial legacy that persists in contemporary racism in Britain. The novel achieves this through a mnemonic narrative strategy based on a fragmented structure with a narrative voice shifting back and forth in time and place. In doing so, the novel contests the idea of the homogeneous nation by drawing parallels between the Middle Passage and refugee flow from Africa. This study will, thus, demonstrate that the novel offers a transcultural perspective on memory and nation by illustrating the cross-border reach of memories that are ignored by national essentialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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11. It's all about the story: Personal narratives in children's literature about refugees.
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Tomsic, Mary and Zbaracki, Matthew D.
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CHILDREN'S literature ,CHILD authors ,REFUGEES in literature ,ILLUSTRATORS ,CHILDREN ,PRIMARY education - Abstract
Stories are one way that experiences, ideas and culture are shared with children in educational settings. Commercially published books are the standard means in schools for sharing stories. Qualitative content analysis was carried out on 30 personal narrative‐based children's picture books. While the range of stories told in books is vast, our research focuses on refugee stories for children in light of the contemporary political and public focus on refugees and the forced movement of people around the world. Scholars have identified that books about refugees for children can be useful to explore the topic of refugees, but also caution that they can perpetuate simplistic and stereotypical understandings about forced movement in the world. In our research we examine personal narratives and propose that educators should use stories and books written and illustrated by children as a means to bring refugee children's voices into formal educational spaces. We argue that this is a respectful approach that counters a deficit model of refugee children; it highlights refugee children's authentic voices and stories told on their own terms. Additionally, it offers a counter‐narrative to dominant refugee stories in the public sphere and presents understandings of forced migration and its legacies from children's perspectives. We suggest that to effectively examine refugee experiences through literature, educators should use a number of texts to begin conversations in classrooms, and stories by children who have experienced forced migration should be featured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
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Sellman, Johanna and Sellman, Johanna
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- Refugees in literature, Authors, Exiled, Arabic literature--Europe--History and criticism
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Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic and political dimensions of Arabic exile literature and demonstrates how frameworks such as east–west cultural encounters, political commitment and modernist understandings of exile – which were dominant in 20th-century Arabic exile literature – have been giving way to writing that explores the dynamics of forced migration and the liminal spaces of borders and borderlands.
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- 2022
13. The Kindertransport in Literature : Reimagining Experience
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Stephanie Homer and Stephanie Homer
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- Memory in literature, Jewish children in literature, Jewish refugees in literature, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, Dutch literature--21st century--History and criticism, German literature--21st century--History and criticism, English literature--21st century--History and criticism
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«In this insightful book, Stephanie Homer interrogates how different genre conventions (memoir, autobiographical fiction and novels) influence the representation of the Kindertransport. Her theoretical approach is sophisticated, her selection of texts judicious and representative. Homer's contribution to the study of the reception history of the Kindertransport is important and timely.» (Bill Niven, Professor of Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University) «An immensely valuable intervention into studies of Kindertransport representations, this book invites readers into the ambiguities of memory. With clarity and confidence, the book explores the liberating creative potential of autobiographical fiction and polyphonic fictional voices which have reimagined the places and perspectives on Kindertransport as a migratory experience and literary compulsion. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Kindertransport literature as a genuinely transnational genre of witnessing and re-witnessing.» (Dr Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London) With the dwindling number of Kindertransportees alive today, the living memory of this rescue operation is being transformed into cultural memory, a trend noticeable in the publication of popular Kindertransport fiction since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This change in memory invites the following questions: how is the child refugee's experience remembered, represented and reimagined in literature? And, consequently, what understanding of the Kindertransport is being transmitted to the following generations? Drawing on understandings of genre, narratology and empathy, this book examines works in English, German and Dutch from three literary genres: memoirs and autobiographical fiction by Kindertransportees and recent fiction by authors with no first-hand experience of the Kindertransport. This study exposes the various conventions, tensions and reader expectations attached to each genre and how these influence the author's construction of the text and, in turn, the nature of the representation. This topical research engages in debates at the heart of current discussions on Holocaust and Kindertransport memory, such as the limits of representability, the «unspeakability» of trauma, and issues of ethics and aesthetics in a post-survivor era.
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- 2022
14. God's Family: Place and the Politics of Identity.
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Shloss, Carol Loeb
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REFUGEES in literature ,BORDER crossing in literature ,INVOLUNTARY relocation ,LITERARY characters - Abstract
The author cle examines the initial border crossing in fictional works of author Flannery O'Connor about displacement. Topics discussed include the local people's view of foreigners in O'Connor's fictional works, O'Connor's use of geography to name and create characters, and O'Connor's story focusing on Jewish refugees in Germany, Austria and Italy.
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- 2022
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15. Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination : Transcultural Movements
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Anna Ball and Anna Ball
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- Feminism in art, Art, Modern--21st century, Women refugees in art, Refugees in literature, Feminist literature--History and criticism, Women refugees--Intellectual life, Art, Modern, Social sciences
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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and the Caribbean, this volume reveals the hitherto unrecognised networks of feminist alliance being formulated across borders, while reflecting carefully on the complex politics of cross-cultural feminist solidarity. The book presents a variety of cultural case-studies that each reveal a different context in which the transcultural feminist imagination can be seen to operate – from the ‘maternal feminism'of literary journalism confronting the European ‘refugee crisis'to Iran's female film directors building creative collaborations with displaced Afghan women; and from artists employing sonic creativities in order to listen to women in U.K. and Australian detention, to LGBTQ+ poets and video artists articulating new forms of queer feminist community against the backdrop of the hostile environment. This is an essential read for scholars in Women's and Gender Studies, Feminist and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literary Studies, as well as for those operating in the fields of Gender and Development Studies and Forced Migration Studies.
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- 2021
16. The Refugee Aesthetic : Reimagining Southeast Asian America
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Timothy K. August and Timothy K. August
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- Refugees in literature, Southeast Asian Americans--Ethnic identity, Refugees in art, Electronic books
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The refugee is conventionally considered a powerless figure, eagerly cast aside by both migrant and host communities. In his book, The Refugee Aesthetic, Timothy August investigates how and why a number of Southeast Asian American artists and writers have recently embraced the figure of the refugee as a particularly transformative position. He explains how these artists, theorists, critics, and culture-makers reconstruct their place in the American imagination by identifying and critiquing the underlying structures of power that create refugees in the contemporary world. August looks at the outside forces that shape refugee representation and how these expressions are received. He considers the visual legacy of the Southeast Asian refugee experience by analyzing music videos, graphic novels, and refugee artwork. August also examines the power of refugee literature, showing how and why Southeast Asian American writers look to the refugee position to disentangle their complicated aesthetic legacy. Arguing that “aesthetics” should be central to the conceptualization of critical refugee studies, August shows how representational structures can galvanize or marginalize refugees, depending on how refugee aesthetics are used and circulated.
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- 2021
17. Abbas Khider
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David N. Coury, Karolin Machtans, David N. Coury, and Karolin Machtans
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- Refugees in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature
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Abbas Khider (b. 1973) has established himself as one of the leading literary voices of refugees and marginalised communities in Germany today. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Khider was at a young age a vocal critic of Saddam Hussein's regime, during which he was jailed and tortured before fleeing the country. As a refugee, he crossed many countries before arriving in Germany, where he was eventually granted asylum. His own life experiences have served as a departure point for his novels, which similarly explore the refugee experience and the challenges that migrants to Europe face. This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted to Khider's works to date. The contributions analyse his narrative works and probe important questions relating to political, cultural, and linguistic identity in Germany today. While his works explore what it means to be an immigrant, they do so with a wry sense of humour and an insight into the human condition that also reflect on the political situation in Germany today. His award-winning novels, including Der falsche Inder (2008, The Village Indian, 2013) and Ohrfeige (2016, A Slap in the Face, 2019), which have been translated into English, are discussed in detail. Additionally, an original interview with the author offers insight into his writing process and influences.
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- 2021
18. Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture
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Roger Bromley and Roger Bromley
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- Emigration and immigration in literature, Emigration and immigration in motion pictures, Refugees in literature, Refugees in motion pictures
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Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative “map” of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aimof opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric.
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- 2021
19. Clamouring for Legal Protection : What the Great Books Teach Us About People Fleeing From Persecution
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Robert F Barsky and Robert F Barsky
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- Persecution in literature, Law and literature, Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc, Refugees in literature, Refugees--History, Electronic books
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In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons. The struggles of Odysseus, Moses, Aeneas, Dante, Satan, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, among many others, provide surprising insights into current discussions about those who have left untenable situations in their home countries in search of legal protection. Law students, lawyers, social scientists, literary scholars and general readers who are interested in learning about international refugee law and immigration regulations in home and host countries will find herein a plethora of details about border crossings, including those undertaken to flee pandemics, civil unrest, racism, intolerance, war, forced marriage, or limited opportunities in their home countries.
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- 2021
20. Refugee Imaginaries
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Cox, Emma, Durrant, Sam, Farrier, David, Cox, Emma, Durrant, Sam, and Farrier, David
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- Refugees in literature, Refugees, Refugees--In mass media
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Including 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.
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- 2020
21. Standing at the Border.
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Goyal, Yogita
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AFRICAN American literature ,LITERARY criticism ,REFUGEES in literature ,GEOGRAPHIC boundaries - Abstract
If we were to heed Edward Said's call to see our age as "the age of the refugee, the displaced person, mass immigration," we would need to reimagine identity, citizenship, and human rights on global and intimate scales. This essay explores how we might redefine the boundaries of our literary canons from the specific vantage point of the refugee. How do existing frames for understanding American literary history—whether those of nation and migration, slavery and segregation, Indigenous dispossession and settler colonialism—help fathom the experience of forced migration? Focusing on the African American literary tradition in particular, and guided by the efforts of Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead, I outline how centering the figure of the refugee leads to new meanings of home and uprooting, requiring a radical rethinking of citizenship and belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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22. Time in the antipodes
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Measham, Fatima
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- 2020
23. Discomforted Readers and the Cultural Politics of Genre in Lawrence Hill's The Illegal.
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Glanville, Erin Goheen
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CANADIAN fiction ,POLITICAL refugees in literature ,FORCED migration in literature ,NATIONALISM in literature ,CANADIAN humanitarian assistance ,CANADIAN literature - Abstract
This section presents a literary criticism of the 2015 novel "The Illegal," by Canadian author Lawrence Hill. Topics discussed include the publication of the novel prior to the rise of cultural and political issues concerning refugees in Canada, the way the novel addressed themes such as forced migration, Canadian humanitarian assistance, and nationalism, and the evolution and increasing recognition of Canadian refugee fiction.
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- 2022
24. Literature with A White Helmet : The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming, and Representing Refugees
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Lava Asaad and Lava Asaad
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- Refugees in literature
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Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee's body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists. The book relies on a broad selection of texts by authors who, in one way or another, have experienced displacement, witnessed it, imagined it, or co-written about it.
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- 2019
25. Migrating Fictions : Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
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Abigail G. H. Manzella and Abigail G. H. Manzella
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- Migration, Internal, in literature, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Race relations in literature, Refugees in literature, Displacement (Psychology) in literature
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Winner, 2021 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award Winner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration, and the migrant labor of the Southwest, Abigail G. H. Manzella reveals how the country's past is imbued with governmentally (en)forced movements that diminished access to full citizenship rights for the laboring class, people of color, and women. This work is the first book-length study to examine all of these movements together along with their literature, including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Sanora Babb's Whose Names Are Unknown, Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine, Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones. Manzella shows how the United States'history of spatial colonization within its own borders extends beyond isolated incidents into a pattern based on ideology about nation-building, citizenship, and labor. This book seeks to theorize a Thirdspace, an alternate location for social justice that acknowledges the precarity of the internally displaced person.
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- 2018
26. Placeless People : Writings, Rights, and Refugees
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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lyndsey Stonebridge
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc, Exiles' writings--History and criticism.--20th, Refugees in literature, Expatriate authors, Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20, Refugees--Social conditions, Exiles' writings, Literature, Modern
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In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote:'Everywhere the word'exile'which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.'Today's refugee'crisis'has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought. For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights. Placeless People argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.
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- 2018
27. Performing Statelessness in Europe
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S.E. Wilmer and S.E. Wilmer
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- Drama--Political aspects, Refugees in literature, Theater and state
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This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis, it considers a variety of artistic works that have challenged the deficiencies in governmental and transnational practices, as well as innovative efforts by migrants and their hosts to imagine and build a new future. It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies, moving from a consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy, to performances employing fictive identification, documentary dramas, immersive theatre, over-identification and subversive identification, nomadism and political activism. This study will appeal to those interested in questions of statelessness, migration, and the problematic role of the nation-state.
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- 2018
28. Our Shared Responsibility for Refugees.
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Raponi, Sandra
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REFUGEES in literature ,RESPONSIBILITY in literature - Published
- 2022
29. National accounts: Love in a time of apocalypse
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Measham, Fatima
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- 2019
30. The taniwha, moderation of our human pursuits
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McConnell, Jack
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- 2019
31. Echoes of Auschwitz in manus memoir
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Matthews, Brian
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- 2019
32. Children’s Literature About Refugees : A Catalyst in the Classroom
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Julia Hope and Julia Hope
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- Children's literature--Study and teaching (Elementary), Refugee children--Education, Refugees in literature
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'It could happen to anybody', observed one nine-year-old child when her teacher read a book in class about refugees. Fiction provides the perfect conduit for the experiences of refugees so that young refugee students feel their experiences are validated, and their peers come to understand their situation. In this book, Julia Hope explores ways of engaging in class with children's books about refugees. Using Beverley Naidoo's novel'The Other Side of Truth'along with a book aimed at younger children - Mary Hoffman's'The Colour of Home'- Hope offers concrete case studies on how children's literature about refugees can be used productively in the classroom. As more and more people flee wars, violence and political oppression, this book gives teachers both pedagogical support and knowledge of the resources, and shows how they can tackle this challenging topic. It is indispensable for educators of younger children and for researchers who are interested in controversial children's literature.
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- 2017
33. Objets d'inhumanité : Frontières, traversées, migrations
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Anne Bocandé, Soeuf Elbadawi, Anne Bocandé, and Soeuf Elbadawi
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- Refugees in literature, Africans--Europe, Refugees--Africa, Refugees in art, Immigrants in art, Immigrants in literature
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Des êtres, poussés par l'urgence vitale, se retrouvent à arpenter la longue route, semée de haines et de peurs, qui mène de l'Afrique à l'Europe, questionnent ce qui fonde notre humanité: une fragilité de notre relation. Ils s'agitent, sans l'avoir choisi, dans une tragédie d'errances multiples. Ces hommes, ces femmes, ces enfants, que l'on nomme avec un langage à géométrie variable - migrants, réfugiés, étrangers - ont ce visage que beaucoup ne veulent plus voir. Le début des récits à venir se fonde pourtant sur la réinvention possible d'un Etre-ensemble.
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- 2017
34. African Women Under Fire : Literary Discourses in War and Conflict
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Pauline Ada Uwakweh and Pauline Ada Uwakweh
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- African literature (French)--Women authors--Hi, African literature--Women authors--History and, War in literature, Women in literature, Refugees in literature, Women--Violence against--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women and war--Africa, Sub-Saharan
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African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.
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- 2017
35. Narrative Breakdown in the Political Asylum Process.
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SHUMAN, AMY and BOHMER, CAROL
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NARRATIVES ,POLITICAL asylum ,POLITICAL refugees in literature ,EMOTIONAL trauma in literature ,REFUGEES in literature - Abstract
The narratives that political asylum applicants tell in immigration hearings are often fragmentary, in part because people fleeing violence and discrimination are not always knowledgeable about the details of their persecution. We discuss the particular problem of narrating unanticipated events, experiences that have no precedent in people's ordinary lives before violence. Building on earlier research on narrative coherence and trauma narrative, we describe how narrative breakdown occurs in narrative form and in the hearing interactions. We suggest that this narrative breakdown is part of a larger discourse of suspicion in political asylum hearings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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36. The Theme of Partition in Indian English Novels.
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JEYARAJU, PAMELA
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NATIVE American authors ,REFUGEES in literature - Abstract
This essay is a study of the partition of the Indian Subcontinent into India and Pakistan as explored in Indian English Fiction. Critics laud the irresistible creative urge that this compelling experience has promoted in the form of fiction. Indian English writers like Kushwant Singh, Mahohar Malgonkar and Chaman Nahal have dealt with the theme of partition elaborately in their novels, while R. K. Narayan, Balachandra Rajan and Attira Hosain have provided a dispassionate picture. In all, the authors have provided a comprehensive picture of the partition. The critics too appreciate that these writers sound an optimistic note even in the midst of terrible tragedy and reveal the bright side of future by emphasising on the nobility of life and the vulnerability of evil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
37. Die Fremden : Für mehr Mitgefühl
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William Shakespeare, Frank Günther, William Shakespeare, and Frank Günther
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- English drama--History and criticism, Refugees in literature, English drama--Translations into German
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Ein Weckruf aus einer anderen Zeit Mit Ausnahme von sechs Unterschriften hat nur ein handschriftliches Zeugnis Shakespeares überlebt. Erst kürzlich konnten Experten seine Urheberschaft verifizieren. Was um 1604 entstanden ist, liest sich heute - vor dem Hintergrund der sogenannten Flüchtlingskrise - wie ein flammendes Plädoyer für ein menschenwürdiges Miteinander. Dringlich, eindrücklich, von erschütternder Aktualität. Mit einem Vorwort von Heribert Prantl Übersetzt und mit einem Essay von Frank Günther
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- 2016
38. Tempests After Shakespeare
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C. Zabus and C. Zabus
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- Literature, Modern--History and criticism, Political refugees in literature, Shipwrecks in literature, Magicians in literature, Islands in literature
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Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the'rewriting'of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through which to read three movements - postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism - via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century. Covering texts in three languages, from four continents and in the last four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and the varied critiques of representation that make up the'postmodern condition'.
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- 2016
39. Exploring Visual Narratives of the Refugee Experience With Students.
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DeHart, Jason D.
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GRAPHIC novels in education ,REFUGEES in literature ,TEACHING methods - Abstract
The author draws on previous work in looking at refugee literature and focuses on two different, yet arguably complimentary, examples of marginalized narratives in graphic novels that inservice teachers can use in instruction. The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks offers a fictional story yet delves into complex issues and themes. Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, and illustrated by Giovanni Rigano, takes a more realistic approach to the topic. Both graphic novels are effective and can lead to classroom applications. The author offers a description of the works and discussion about instructional steps for their use with students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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40. Mediterranean refugee crisis
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Turner, Derek
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- 2021
41. Interfacing Diaspora with Ecological Humanities in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide.
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Prasad, Murari
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ENVIRONMENTAL humanities ,DIASPORA in literature ,REFUGEES in literature - Abstract
The term "diaspora" is applied to an expatriate minority community whose members share certain characteristics but this concept has been a rapidly changing phenomenon in response to disparate kinds of demographic shifts, particularly during the past two decades. The increased mobility of capital and culture has made the earlier conceptualisation a problematic one. The concept needs to be recalibrated in view of the perceived challenge posed by new mobile strangers. Evidently, the movement, displacement and relocation of peoples in globalisation have increasingly accentuated the circulation of the local in the global and the new convergences have complicated the issues of citizenship and belonging. As a polythetic term, diaspora has acquired a wide, inclusivist definition to include immigrants, expatriates, refugees, guest workers, exile community and overseas ethnic groups. In the emerging spectacle the "environmental" is increasingly embedded into the social, political and economic dimensions of displacement. This entwining is confirmed by the struggle for rights over access to natural resources and human habitats following the streams of migration, and hence the conceptual importance accorded to environment. The complex interplay of "environmental" categories such as water, land, habitat, forest, rivers with their social, political and material coordinates cannot be excluded from any disciplinary engagement with the dispersion of peoples in the "new world order." This article examines the perspectives on the ecological disruptions and challenges of diasporic settlement depicted by Amitav Ghosh in his novel, The Hungry Tide (2004). The novel's essential narrative is the forcible eviction of thousands of Bengali refugees from the island of Marichjhanpi by the communist-led Left Front government of West Bengal in January-May 1979. The narrative offers a palpable ecological paradigm as well as centres on the issue of refugee migrants, and thus envisions a new form of belonging in the climatically challenged world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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42. The States of Memory: National Narratives of Belonging, the Refugee Novel, and Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone.
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Gully, Jennifer M. and Itagaki, Lynn Mie
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REFUGEES in literature ,EUROPEAN Migrant Crisis, 2015-2016 ,HOLOCAUST survivors - Abstract
Published at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis, Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Gehen, ging, gegangen (Go, Went, Gone) posits a new German national narrative for the age of migration. Detailing state bureaucracies and how they thwart the characters' futures, the novel depicts conflicts between official narratives and personal memory that expose state power over representations of the past. The novel expands the German memory regime by incorporating migrant memories into national ones, connecting past Holocaust victims and Silesian expellees to present African and Muslim refugees and establishing all as fundamental to the nation's long history of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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43. Citizens of the Imagination: Refugee Memory in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.
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Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto
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REFUGEES in literature ,HISTORICAL literature - Abstract
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer and his nonfiction work Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War act as companion pieces that explore not only the Vietnam War and its aftermath but also the concepts of just and unjust memory. Drawing from memory studies and critical refugee studies, I explore Nguyen's search for a just memory in his works. Nguyen yearns for a world where individuals see themselves not as "citizens of nations," perpetuating entrapping discourses, but as "citizens of the imagination," providing disrupting alternatives possible in a resistant refugee memory, a site of "belonging without borders." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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44. "We Are All Migrants": The Refugee Novel and the Claims of Universalism.
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Goyal, Yogita
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REFUGEES in literature ,UNIVERSALISM (Philosophy) ,VISUAL culture - Abstract
I draw on Edward Said's meditations on exile to critique Mohsin Hamid's representation of the migrant as a universal figure in his acclaimed 2017 novel Exit West. Hamid naturalizes the fact of migration to evacuate the specific historical experience that generates it, rendering banal what must remain historical. I consider how the refugee novel as a genre reckons with the difficulties of representation in relation to debates in visual culture and anthropology. Along the way, I probe claims to the singularity of the refugee, as well as attempts to create itineraries of ethical and historical relation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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45. Address Unknown: German Children's Literature about Refugees.
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Feldman, Daniel
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CHILDREN'S literature ,REFUGEES in literature ,SOCIAL change ,KINDERTRANSPORTS (Rescue operations) ,REFUGEE children ,KINSHIP - Abstract
Children's literature offers a rich site for investigating the confrontation between childhood and the turbulent forces of political and cultural change. German children's literature about refugees illustrates this dynamic through the responses of different generations to the enduring challenge of children dislocated by state violence. This article discusses Postkarten für einen kleinen Jungen (2013) by Henry Foner, Bestimmt wird alles gut (2016) by Kirsten Boie, Ich war ein Glückskind (2013) by Marion Charles, and Sami und der Wunsch nach Freiheit (2017) by Rafik Schami to reveal an underlying kinship between the portrayal of child refugees during the Kindertransport of 1938-39 and the European refugee crisis of 2015-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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46. Shakespeare and Immigration
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Ruben Espinosa, David Ruiter, Ruben Espinosa, and David Ruiter
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- Identity (Psychology) in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature, Literature and society--England--History--16th century, Refugees in literature, Immigrants in literature, Social ethics in literature, Race in literature
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Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the other, they shed light on how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare's work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions for a contemporary audience. The essays consider the immigrant experience; strangers and strangeness; values of hospitality in relationship to the foreigner; the idea of a host society; religious refuge and refugees; legal views of inclusion and exclusion; structures of xenophobia; and early modern homeland security. In doing so, this volume offers a variety of perspectives on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama and how the influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of community and identity; and, collection questions what is at stake in staging the anxieties and opportunities associated with foreigners. Ultimately, Shakespeare and Immigration offers the first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work. By presenting a compilation of views that address Shakespeare's attention to the role of the foreigner, the volume constitutes a timely and relevant addition to studies of race, ethics, and identity in Shakespeare.
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- 2014
47. Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works
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William Niven and William Niven
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- Emigration and immigration in literature, German prose literature--20th century--History and criticism, Deportation in literature, Emigration and immigration in motion pictures, Refugees in motion pictures, Refugees in literature, German prose literature--Germany (East)--History and criticism
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Explodes the conventional wisdom that there was a taboo on the topic of flight and expulsion in East Germany.It is by now almost a cliché that the flight and expulsion of Germans from east-central Europe at the end of the Second World War was a taboo topic in the German Democratic Republic. According to this claim, the Socialist Unity Party (SED) suppressed reference to flight and expulsion so as not to upset its socialist neighbors. This book shows that such a view does not hold up to serious scrutiny. While the topic may not have been addressed in the realm ofpolitics or official commemoration, it was picked up again and again in literature, particularly fiction. Representations of flight and expulsion were by no means restricted, as some have asserted, to Christa Wolf's novel Kindheitsmuster: Niven's study documents around one hundred novels and short stories published in the GDR that address flight or expulsion. He argues that in the 1950s and early 1960s GDR fiction included many refugee figures. Thepredominant emphasis was on their integration under socialism rather than their experience of flight and loss of home; nevertheless, flight and to a lesser degree expulsion were depicted, as was their impact on individuals. They continued to be portrayed in the late GDR and in post-unification east Germany. Flight and expulsion were subject to a developing literary discourse in the GDR, a discourse that this book explores. Bill Niven is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University.
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- 2014
48. Contemporary Asylum Narratives : Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
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A. Woolley and A. Woolley
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- English literature--History and criticism--21st century, Refugees in literature, Political refugees in literature
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Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre.
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- 2014
49. Heimatverlust in historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Jugendromanen der Gegenwart ueber Auswanderung, Flucht und Vertreibung
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Sibylle Nagel and Sibylle Nagel
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- Deportation in literature, Refugees in literature, Escape in literature, Young adult fiction--History and criticism, Children's stories--History and criticism, Emigration and immigration in literature, Psychological fiction--History and criticism
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In historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Jugendromanen über Auswanderung, Flucht und Vertreibung, soweit in den letzten Jahren erschienen, spielt das Thema des Heimatverlustes eine zentrale Rolle. Es geht in diesen Texten allerdings um mehr als nur den äußeren Vorgang des Reisens oder der Migration; sie lassen sich auch als verkappte Schilderungen eines inneren Vorgangs, einer psychischen Entwicklung lesen. Sie handeln nicht zuletzt auch vom Verlassen der Kindheit, von der Bewältigung der Adoleszenz und von der Erreichung bzw. der Verfehlung eines reifen Erwachsenenstatus. Wir haben es in gewissem Ausmaß stets auch mit psychologischen, mit Entwicklungsromanen zu tun. Der wie immer sentimental aufgeladene Rückblick auf die Heimat gilt im Grunde genommen der verlorenen Kindheit. Die Arbeit deckt einen Mechanismus der doppelten Bedeutung auf, der für viele andere Jugendromane charakteristisch ist, die auf den ersten Blick frei von aller (Entwicklungs-)Psychologie sind.
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- 2014
50. Reading and viewing [Book Review]
- Published
- 2017
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