Displaced Lives : : Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and Plays from Four Continents / / ed. by Frank Stewart.

Human displacement is an old phenomenon; however, the dislocation of people in the twenty-first century has been unprecedented. At the end of 2019, over 260 million people were living outside their countries of birth. Some are forced to relocate—by violence, wars, hunger, persecution, and other caus...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Mānoa ; 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Editor’s Note --
Essay --
Borderlands --
Poetry --
Statue of Liberty --
The Traveler --
Good Night --
Fiction --
Bhasha India --
The Missing --
Pig --
Werewolf --
Neve Shalom, September 2014 --
Wulkan --
Vanilla Crumble --
Performance --
Turning your body into a compass --
Return of the Exiles --
In a Silent City --
The Serpent --
The Speculative Fiction Writer --
At Wagah --
Two Poems --
Something Growing --
Fox-Sparrow --
Claude McKay Describes His Own Life --
Six Poems from Harlem Shadows --
Bread --
Yesterday and Today --
The Subhuman and His Habitat --
Lament for Mrs. Mones --
The Rehearsal --
Big White Bird --
Dera Baba Nanak --
Grandmas --
Tonghui River in Beijing --
Gil --
Self --
Five Prose Poems --
The Souls of Shah Alam Camp --
The White Night Photo Studio --
The Flower of All Water --
Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy --
About the Photographer --
About the Contributors --
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Summary:Human displacement is an old phenomenon; however, the dislocation of people in the twenty-first century has been unprecedented. At the end of 2019, over 260 million people were living outside their countries of birth. Some are forced to relocate—by violence, wars, hunger, persecution, and other causes—and some are voluntary migrants. A single term cannot define who they are or why they are on the move.For those uprooted by force, the psychological and spiritual loss of homeland can be devastating. The millions who are mentally uprooted—because of war-induced PTSD, addiction, and aging—can suffer similar displacement and trauma.Through outstanding fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama, the authors in Displaced Lives vividly depict the responses and emotions of ordinary people to displacement, a devastating and widespread crisis of our time.Authors are from Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Macedonia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S.Featured is a portfolio of photographs by Serena Chopra, taken in the Tibetan refugee colony of Majnu Ka Tilla, Delhi.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780824888046
9783110696295
9783110704716
9783110704518
9783110704747
9783110704532
9783110696301
9783110689624
DOI:10.1515/9780824888046
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Frank Stewart.