Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture 1st ed.

Author

• Bromley, Roger

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030735968

Series

Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture

Subject(s)

• REFUGEES
• REFUGEES IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative “map” of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aim of opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xv, 247 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope --
3. Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees --
4. Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey --
5. Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses --
6. Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the West Bank of Palestine.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00896/21	305.906914 Bro N	Online !	Available