Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities by Emma Cox Paperback Book

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Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representation
Places refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politics
The refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness.
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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Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. 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.Emma Cox is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sam Durrant is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds.David Farrier is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham.Agnes Woolley is Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London.

Author Biography

Emma Co, Reader in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London. Sam Durrant, Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature, University of Leeds. David Farrier, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Edinburgh. Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham. Agnes Woolley, Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures, Birkbeck, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley;Part 1. Refugee Genealogies; Introduction, Lyndsey Stonebridge;1. Refugees in Modern World History, Peter Gatrell;2. Theories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt, Ned Curthoys;3. A Genealogy of Refugee Writing, Arthur Rose;4. Genres of Refugee Writing, Anna Bernard;Part II. Asylum; Introduction, Agnes Woolley;5. Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law, Sudeep Dasgupta;6. Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims, Anthony Good;7. The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City, Alison Jeffers;Part III. The Border; Introduction, Emma Cox;8. Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border, Agnes Woolley;9. Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours, Liam Connell;10. The Digital Border: the Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 Migration 'Crisis', Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou;Part IV. Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement; Introduction, Sam Durrant;11. The 'Dead Road', Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone, Maureen Moynagh;12. 'What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?': Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar's The Return, Norbert Bugeja;13. 'A Man Carries His Door': Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry, Douglas Robinson;14. Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole, Byron Santangelo;Part V. The Camp;Introduction, Emma Cox;15. Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps), Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh;16. Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh;17. Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp, Madelaine Hron;Part VI. Sea Crossings;Introduction, David Farrier;18. Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy, Joseph Pugliese;19. The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery, Hakim Abderrezak;20. 'Island is no arrival': Migrants' Islandment at the Borders of Europe, Mariangela Palladino;21. At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees, Parvati Nair;Part VII. Digital Territories; Introduction, Agnes Woolley;22. Networked narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Mary Mitchell;23. Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War, Dima Saber and Paul Long;24. Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees, Btihaj Ajana;25. The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness, Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne Kennedy;Part VIII. Home;Introduction, David Farrier;26. Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, Daniel Hartley;27. Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, Mireille Rosello;28. Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village, Misha Myers and Mariam Issa;Part IX. Open Cities;Introduction, Sam Durrant;29. 'Another Politics of the City': Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism, Jonathan Darling;30. The Welcome City?, Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite;31. In the City's Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community, Andr

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Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representation Places refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities research Brings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politics Read the Introduction The refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. 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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Refugee Writing provides an urgently needed account of how and why the refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of our era. The book demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, foregrounding the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising, and sometimes obscuring the precarious experience of forced migration and statelessness. Comprising 40 new essays on representations by and of refugees from humanities-led scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, the collection establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical inquiry.

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Narrative, Refugee Writing, Writers in Exile in Literature, Law, History and Politics departments.

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