Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representation
- Places refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities research
Brings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politics
The refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness.
Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.
Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.
Emma Co, Reader in Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London. Sam Durrant, Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature, University of Leeds. David Farrier, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Edinburgh. Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham. Agnes Woolley, Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures, Birkbeck, University of London.
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