Refugee genres : essays on the culture of flight and refuge / Mike Classon Frangos, Sheila Ghose, editors.
Classon Frangos, Mike, editor.; Ghose, Sheila, editor.
2023
PN56.5.I55 R44 2023
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Title Refugee genres : essays on the culture of flight and refuge / Mike Classon Frangos, Sheila Ghose, editors.
ISBN 9783031092572 (electronic bk.)
3031092570 (electronic bk.)
9783031092565
3031092562
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2 doi
Call Number PN56.5.I55 R44 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.89206912
305.906914
Summary Refugees Genres is a timely, interdisciplinary and far-reaching exploration of a figure at once over-scripted and barely-legible: the contemporary refugee. An international assembly of scholars and critics conduct deep probes into the ways this figure hyper-visible, politically weaponised, often patronised emerges in comics and graphic novels, experimental films, modern performance and music, memoirs and literary fiction before, in termite fashion, perverting and restructuring those artistic forms to startling effect. --S. S. Sandhu, Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU Rich and varied, the essays in Refugee Genres pull together refugee narratives from literature, film and the graphic arts, to make a series of bold interventions into this evolving field. --Agnes Woolley, Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures, Birkbeck, University of London 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. 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 Sodertorn University, Sweden. She has published on British Asian literature and on postcolonial Sweden. .
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Ghose, Sheila, editor.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form
Defining Refugee Genres
Genre Histories of Human Rights
Migrant Performance and Media
Overview of Chapters
References
Part I: Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry
Chapter 2: "How Do we Survive the Memory of So Much Waiting?": Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee
The Pain of Others
The Untranslatable Element
Conclusion
References

Chapter 3: Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs
Refugee Graphic Memoir
Post-Vietnam War Memories and Refugee Comics
Refugee History and Postmemory in G.B. Tran's Vietnamerica
Feminist Refugee Autobiography in Thi Bui's the Best we Could Do
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s
Tayeb Salih: Cyprus and Insularity
Suad Amiry: Cyprus as a Bridge
Conclusions
References
Part II: Performance and Documentary Media

Chapter 5: Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys
Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin)
Part One: Home and Being at Home When One Leaves Home
Moving Away and Arriving by Reinhabiting Space
Part Two: For me, Actually, It Was Not That Hard
Conclusion
Appendix: Song Lyrics
Kobani (Written by Ismaeel Foustok and Pago Balke)
Aleppo (Written by Pago Balke and Ismaeel Foustok)
Regen Am Fenster (Written by Azad Kour)
Werder-Jacke (Written by Azad Kour)
Held (Written by Ismaeel Foustok)
References

Chapter 6: Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe
Introduction
'Stranger danger' and Theatres of Migration
From Border to Border: Destabilising Bordering
Conclusion: Repositioning Migrancy Through Theatre
References
Chapter 7: On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy
Introduction
War Refugees in Daphne Matziaraki's 4.1 miles (2016)
Environmental Refugees in Michael Nash's Climate Refugees (2010)

Developmental Refugees in Kalyanee Mam's Lost World (2018)
Human Uprootedness in Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Powaqqatsi (1988)
Conclusion
References
Part III: The Refugee Novel
Chapter 8: Splitting Apart, Coming Together: Bildung (...shards...) into Mosaic-Being through Performance of the Refugee and Forced-Migration Bildungsroman
Truth of Structure
Identity of Narrator/Subject(s)
Sense of (Con)Text
Performance into Being
References
Chapter 9: Shattered Forms: Transnational Migration Literatures in Melilla and the Balkan Refugee Route
Introduction

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