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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Badkhen, Anna,; Bojórquez, Mario,; Cardona, José Manuel,; Chowdhury, Siddharth,; Dabral, Mangalesh,; Dalisay, Jose,; Deeley, Patrick,; Dori-Carlier, Batsheva,; Draesner, Ulrike,; Fan, Huang,; Farrukhi, Asif,; Filloux, Catherine,; Kaminsky, Ilya,; Karlin, Wayne,; Koh, Jee Leong,; Kumar, Sukrita Paul,; Madzirov, Nikola,; Martin, Julia,; McCorkl, James,; McKay, Claude,; Moscaliuc, Mihaela,; Mufti, Masud,; Nasr, Ramsey,; Núñez, Víctor Rodríguez,; Padmanabhan, Manjula,; Pancake, Ann,; Paul, Joginder,; Ping, Qing,; Roberts, Chloe Garcia,; Roy, Françoise,; Satchidanandan, K.,; Sha, Yi,; Suxin, Wang,; Vajpeyi, Udayan,; Wajahat, Asghar,; Wolpé, Sholeh,; Wrigley, Robert,; Yao, Chang,; Šteger, Aleš,
• HerausgeberIn: Stewart, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editor’s Note -- Essay -- Borderlands -- Poetry -- Statue of Liberty -- The Traveler -- Good Night -- Fiction -- Bhasha India -- Poetry -- The Missing -- Fiction -- Pig -- Poetry -- Werewolf -- Neve Shalom, September 2014 -- Wulkan -- Fiction -- Vanilla Crumble -- Performance -- Turning your body into a compass -- Poetry -- Return of the Exiles -- Essay -- In a Silent City -- Fiction -- The Serpent -- Poetry -- The Speculative Fiction Writer -- At Wagah -- Two Poems -- Essay -- Something Growing -- Poetry -- Fox-Sparrow -- Essay -- Claude McKay Describes His Own Life -- Poetry -- Six Poems from Harlem Shadows -- Bread -- Fiction -- Yesterday and Today -- Poetry -- The Subhuman and His Habitat -- Lament for Mrs. Mones -- Performance -- The Rehearsal -- Essay -- Big White Bird -- Fiction -- Dera Baba Nanak -- Grandmas -- Poetry -- Tonghui River in Beijing -- Essay -- Gil -- Poetry -- Two Poems -- Self -- Two Poems -- Five Prose Poems -- Fiction -- The Souls of Shah Alam Camp -- The White Night Photo Studio -- Poetry -- Two Poems -- The Flower of All Water -- Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy -- About the Photographer -- About the Contributors -- Permissions