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1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge literature handbooks |
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Routledge literature handbooks.
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| Contents |
Part I. Storytelling. Flights of Fancy : Imagination, Audacity, and Refugee Storytelling / Carrie Dawson -- Theorizing Unsettlement : Refugee Narratives as Literary Ration Cards / B. Venkat Mani -- Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form / Bishupal Limbu -- Coming Undone : Displacement, Trauma and the Crisis of (Narrative) Agency / Asha Varadharajan -- Part II. Genres and conventions. Refugee Noir / Sydney Van To -- Re-orienting the Gaze : Visualizing Refugees in Recent Film / Agnes Woolley -- Song, Sound, and Refugee Affect in Life of a Flower and Song Lang / Lan Duong -- Refugees to Worker-migrants : Transformation of Cross-border Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Novels / Asis De -- Part III. Visuality and visibility. "Through the Lens of a Refugee" : Disrupting Visual Narratives of Displacement / Anna Carastathis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi -- Narrativizing Unarrival : Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific / M. Eliatamby-O'Brien -- If We Do Not Write Poetry, We Will Die: Afghan Diasporic Social Media Poetry for the Fall of Kabul / Zuzanna Olszewska -- Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives / Roopika Risam -- Part IV. Mediation and Positionality. Up Close and Personal : Mediated Testimony and Narrative Tropes in Refugee Comics / Nina Mickwitz -- "I am Myself" : Queer/Refugee Narratives / Elif Sarı -- Applying RefugeeCrit to Recent Middle Grade/Young Adult Children's Literature About Refugees / Julia Hope -- Refugee Narrative Pedagogy : A Cultural Refugee Studies Approach -- Part V. Border-crossing. Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in Central American and US-Central American Refugee Narratives / Regina Marie Mills -- The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive : Contesting the Refugee Narrative / Charmaine A. Nelson -- To the Editor : Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the 'Pakistani Muslim Citizen' in Punjab / Aalene Mahum Aneeq -- Iraq and the Work of the Frame / Angela Naimou |
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Part VI. Health and (Dis)ability. The Biopoetics of Health : Caribbean Refugee Narratives / April Shemak -- Refugee Race-ability : Bodies, Lands, Worlds / Y-Dang Troeung -- Many Hands Lighten the Load' : Health Lessons from San Diego during the Time of COVID-19 / Christiane Assefa -- Part VII. Care and Kinship. Affecting Appeals : Armenian Refugee Narratives in the Archives of Early Humanitarian Discourse / Veronika Zablotsky -- Fearless Faces : Motherhood and Gendered Mobility of North Korean Refugees in Jero Yun's Films / Eun Ah Cho -- Queer Refugee Homemaking : Lesbian and Gay Refugees' Oral Histories and Photovoice Narratives of Home / Katherine Fobear -- "Little Knowledges" : Shifting Visions of Childhood, Care, and Technology in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration / Suncica Klaas -- Part VIII. Land/Water Ecologies. Refugee Ecologies : The Elements, Flora, and Fauna in Refugee Narratives / Marguerite Nguyen -- Writing, Belonging, Forgetting : Waterscapes in Bangla Dalit Refugee Literature / Himadri Chatterjee -- Being Indigenous and Refugee : The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives / Eman Ghanayem -- Part IX. Spatiality and Cartographies. Alternative Spatial Imaginaries : Refugees' Counter-Narratives of Settlement and Mobility in Patras / Marco Mogiani -- Letting Karst Mountains Bloom : Decentering the Secret War in Hmong American Literature and Art / Aline Lo -- Islands of Writers : Tracing an Archipelagic Literature / Kieren Kresevic Salazar -- Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games / Nathan Allen Jung -- Part X. Temporality and Futurity. Songs Against Boredom : Youth, Music, and Bosnian Exile / Alenka Bartulović and Miha Kozorog -- On Water, On Land : Sustainability of Refugee Lives in an Era of Ecological Crises / Emily Hue -- The Marshall Islands, Guam, and the Figure of Climate Refuge(e)s / Olivia Arlene Quintanilla -- Refugee Writing and the Problem of the Future / Hadji Bakara |
| Summary |
"This companion presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives. In response to the oversaturation of sociological, governmental, and journalistic narratives about refugees, this book examines the narratives refugees tell to, for, and about themselves. Engaging a rich variety of genres--fiction, autobiography, prose, poetry, graphic novels, film, photography, performance, social media--the chapters included in this anthology examine how conditions of forced displacement and encounters with different asylum regimes shape the form and content of refugee cultural production. Chapters are organized around three key forms--storytelling, testimony, (auto)ethnography--and four key themes--memory (and forgetting), human rights (and its limitations), border-crossing (and nation-states), and cartographies (of displacement and diaspora). This volume will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners. In addition to analyzing refugee narratives, contributors offer pedagogical strategies for how to teach, discuss, and engage refugee narratives in the contemporary political moment"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Evyn L ̊Espiritu Gandhi is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Critical Ethnic Studies, Amerasia Journal, Canadian Review of American Studies, MELUS, American Quarterly and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine, was published in 2022. Vinh Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Diasporic Literature at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. His writing can be found in Social Text, MELUS, ARIEL, Canadian Literature, Life Writing, Migration and Society, and Canadian Review of American Studies. He is co-editor of Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada |
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Print version record and online resource, viewed February 20, 2023 |
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Refugees' writings -- History and criticism
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Refugees in literature.
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Refugees in motion pictures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Refugees in literature
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Refugees in motion pictures
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Refugees' writings
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Essays.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Espiritu Gandhi, Evyn Lê, 1991- editor of compilation.
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Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor), editor.
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| LC no. |
2022046727 |
| ISBN |
9781003131458 |
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100313145X |
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9781000852363 |
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1000852369 |
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1000852393 |
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9781000852394 |
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