Refugee Imaginaries

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Research Across the Humanities

Emma Cox Sam Durrant David Farrier Lyndsey Stonebridge Agnes Woolley(Herausgeber*in)

Edinburgh University Press

Erschienen am 31. August 2021

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544 Seiten

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Emma Cox is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Performing Noncitizenship: Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism (Anthem, 2015), Theatre & Migration (Palgrave, 2014), and the edited play collection Staging Asylum (Currency, 2013). Sam Durrant is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning (State University of New York Press, 2004) and co-editor of Essays in Migratory Aesthetics (Rodopi, 2007) and The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism (Routledge, 2014). He is currently working on a monograph on animist ecologies in contemporary African literature. David Farrier is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Anthropocene Poetics (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Postcolonial Asylum, (Liverpool University Press, 2011). Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press's Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri Agnes Woolley is Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests are in contemporary and postcolonial literature, theatre and film, with a focus on concepts of migration and diaspora. She is the author of Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and has published extensively on asylum, refugee arts, climate change and contemporary literature. She is a regular contributor to openDemocracy, reporting on migration issues.

Herausgeber*in

Emma Cox

Reader in Drama and TheatreRoyal Holloway, University of London

Sam Durrant

Associate Professor of Postcolonial LiteratureUniversity of Leeds

David Farrier

Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary LiteratureUniversity of Edinburgh

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Professor of Humanities and Human RightsUniversity of Birmingham

Agnes Woolley

Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration CulturesBirkbeck, University of London

Inhalt

Introduction, Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley

Part I. Refugee Genealogies
Introduction, Lyndsey Stonebridge

Refugees in Modern World History, Peter Gatrell
Theories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt, Ned Curthoys
A Genealogy of Refugee Writing, Arthur Rose
Genres of Refugee Writing, Anna Bernard

Part II. Asylum

Introduction, Agnes Woolley

Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law, Sudeep Dasgupta
Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims, Anthony Good
The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City, Alison Jeffers

Part III. The Border

Introduction, Emma Cox

Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border, Agnes Woolley
Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours, Liam Connell
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

The 'Dead Road', Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone, Maureen Moynagh
'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
'A Man Carries His Door': Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry, Douglas Robinson
Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole, Byron Santangelo

Part V. The Camp

Introduction, Emma Cox

Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps), Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp, Madelaine Hron

Part VI. Sea Crossings

Introduction, David Farrier

Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy, Joseph Pugliese
The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery, Hakim Abderrezak
'Island is no arrival': Migrants' Islandment at the Borders of Europe, Mariangela Palladino
At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees, Parvati Nair

Part VII. Digital Territories

Introduction, Agnes Woolley

Networked narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Mary Mitchell
Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War, Dima Saber and Paul Long
Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees, Btihaj Ajana
The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness, Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne Kennedy

Part VIII. Home

Introduction, David Farrier

Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, Daniel Hartley
Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, Mireille Rosello
Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village, Misha Myers and Mariam Issa

Part IX. Open Cities

Introduction, Sam Durrant

'Another Politics of the City': Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism, Jonathan Darling
The Welcome City?, Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite
In the City's Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community, Andre Grahle
Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life, Sam Durrant

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