This volume brings together research on the forms, genres, media and histories of refugee migration. Chapters come from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches, including literature, film studies, performance studies and postcolonial studies. The goal is to bring together chapters that use the perspectives of the arts and humanities to study representations of refugee migration. The chapters of the anthology are organized around specific forms and genres: life-writing and memoir, the graphic novel, theater and music, film and documentary, coming-of-age stories, street literature, and the literary novel.
Chapter(s) “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
1. Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form.- Part
I. Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry.- 2. How Do we Survive the Memory of
So Much Waiting?: Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeris The Ungrateful
Refugee.- 3. Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American
Graphic Memoirs.- 4. Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in
Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s.- Part II. Performance and
Documentary Media.- 5. Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee
Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys.- 6. Migrant and Radical:
Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe.- 7. On
the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in
Documentary Film and Philosophy.- Part III. The Refugee Novel.- 8. Splitting
Apart, Coming Together: Bildung (shards) into Mosaic-Being through
Performance of the Refugee and Forced-Migration Bildungsroman.- 9. Shattered
Forms: Transnational Migration Literatures in Melilla and the Balkan Refugee
Route.- 10. Slowly Into Darkness: Postmemory in Alison Picks Far to Go and
Natasha Solomons Mr Rosenblums List.-
11. Responding to Refugee Children:
Transfigurations of Genre and Form in Valeria Luisellis Tell Me How It Ends
and Lost Children Archive.- Part IV. Coda.- 12. The Refugee Imaginary.
Mike Classon Frangos is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published articles on comics and graphic novels, as well as literature, migration and human rights. Sheila Ghose is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has published on British Asian literature and on postcolonial Sweden.
