Postmigration : : art, culture, and politics in contemporary Europe /

Postmigration : : art, culture, and politics in contemporary Europe / / edited by Anna Meera Gaonkar [and three others].

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The concept of »postmigration« has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of »postmigration« and how it...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Gaonkar, Anna Meera,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Postmigrantische Studien
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.); 1587 MB 20 SW-Abbildungen
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Discourses and interventions
  • Postmigrant Europe: Discoveries beyond ethnic, national and colonial boundaries
  • When do societies become postmigrant? A historical consideration based on the example of Switzerland
  • Contested crises Migration regimes as an analytical perspective on today's societies
  • "The cultural capital of postmigrants is enormous" Postmigration in theatre as label and lens
  • A postmigrant contrapuntal reading of the refugee crisis and its discourse 'Foreigners out! Schlingensief's Container'
  • Part II: Cultural representations
  • Class, knowledge and belonging Narrating postmigrant possibilities
  • Postmigrant remembering in mnemonic affective spaces Senthuran Varatharajah's Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen and Pooneh Rohi's Araben
  • "I don't write about me, I write about you" Four major motifs in the Nordic postmigration literary trend
  • Towards an aesthetics of migration The "Eastern turn" of German-language literature and the German cultural memory after 2015
  • Towards an aesthetics of postmigrant narratives Moving beyond the politics of territorial belonging in Ilija Trojanow's Nach der Flucht (2017)
  • We Are Here Reflections on the production of a documentary film on the theatre in postmigrant Denmark
  • Part III: Postmigrant spaces
  • The square, the monument and the re-configurative power of art in postmigrant public spaces
  • Recovering migrant spaces in Laurent Maffre's graphic novel Demain, Demain
  • Zamakan: Towards a contrapuntal image
  • "Tense encounters" How migrantised women design and reimagine urban everyday life
  • Contemplating the coronavirus crisis through a postmigrant lens? From segregative refugee accommodations and camps to a vision of solidarity
  • Contributors.

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