Refugee Imaginaries : : Research Across the Humanities / / Sam Durrant, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Agnes Woolley, Emma Cox, David Farrier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Cox, Emma,; Durrant, Sam,; Farrier, David,; Woolley, Agnes,
• MitwirkendeR: Abderrezak, Hakim,; Ajana, Btihaj,; Bernard, Anna,; Bugeja, Norbert,; Caminero-Santangelo, Byron,; Chouliaraki, Lilie,; Connell, Liam,; Cox, Emma,; Curthoys, Ned,; Darling, Jonathan,; Dasgupta, Sudeep,; Durrant, Sam,; Farrier, David,; Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena,; Gatrell, Peter,; Georgiou, Myria,; Good, Anthony,; Grahle, André,; Hartley, Daniel,; Hron, Madelaine,; Issa, Mariam,; Jeffers, Alison,; Kennedy, Rosanne,; Lewis, Hannah,; Long, Paul,; Mitchell, Mary,; Moynagh, Maureen,; Myers, Misha,; Nair, Parvati,; Palladino, Mariangela,; Pugliese, Joseph,; Qasmiyeh, Yousif M.,; Robinson, Douglas,; Rose, Arthur,; Rosello, Mireille,; Saber, Dima,; Stonebridge, Lyndsey,; Waite, Louise,; Whitlock, Gillian,; Woolley, Agnes,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces 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 politicsRead the IntroductionThe 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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Refugee Genealogies -- Refugee Genealogies: Introduction -- Chapter 1 Refugees in Modern World History -- Chapter 2 Theories of the Refugee, after Hannah Arendt -- Chapter 3 A Genealogy of Refugee Writing -- Chapter 4 Genres of Refugee Writing -- Part II Asylum -- Asylum: Introduction -- Chapter 5 Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law -- Chapter 6 Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims -- Chapter 7 The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and the City -- Part III The Border -- The Border: Introduction -- Chapter 8 Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border -- Chapter 9 Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours -- Chapter 10 The Digital Border: The Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 ‘Migration Crisis’ -- Part IV Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement -- Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement: Introduction -- Chapter 11 The ‘Dead Road’, Displacement and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone -- Chapter 12 ‘What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?’: Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar’s The Return -- Chapter 13 ‘A man carries his door’: Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry -- Chapter 14 Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole -- Part V The Camp -- The Camp: Introduction -- Chapter 15 Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps) -- Chapter 16 Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects -- Chapter 17 Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp -- Part VI Sea Crossings -- Sea Crossings: Introduction -- Chapter 18 Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy -- Chapter 19 The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery -- Chapter 20 ‘Island is no arrival’: Migrants’ ‘Islandment’ at the Borders of Europe -- Chapter 21 At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees -- Part VII Digital Territories -- Digital Territories: Introduction -- Chapter 22 Networked Narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon -- Chapter 23 Refugee Writing, Refugee History: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War -- Chapter 24 Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafi cation of Refugees -- Chapter 25 The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness -- Part VIII Home -- Home: Introduction -- Chapter 26 Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen -- Chapter 27 Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees -- Chapter 28 Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village -- Part IX Open Cities -- Open Cities: Introduction -- Chapter 29 ‘Another politics of the city’: Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism -- Chapter 30 The Welcome City? -- Chapter 31 In the City’s Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community -- Chapter 32 Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life -- Index