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Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes WoolleyPart I. Refugee Genealogies Introduction, Lyndsey StonebridgeRefugees in Modern World History, Peter GatrellTheories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt, Ned CurthoysA Genealogy of Refugee Writing, Arthur RoseGenres of Refugee Writing, Anna BernardPart II. Asylum Introduction, Agnes WoolleySexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law, Sudeep DasguptaMorality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims, Anthony GoodThe Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City, Alison JeffersPart III. The Border Introduction, Emma CoxDocu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border, Agnes WoolleyCrossings, Bodies, Behaviours, Liam ConnellThe Digital Border: the Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 Migration 'Crisis', Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria GeorgiouPart IV. Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement Introduction, Sam DurrantThe 'Dead Road', Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone, Maureen Moynagh'What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?': Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar's The Return, Norbert Bugeja'A Man Carries His Door': Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry, Douglas RobinsonReframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole, Byron SantangeloPart V. The CampIntroduction, Emma CoxMemories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps), Elena Fiddian-QasmiyehWriting the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects, Yousif M. QasmiyehReel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp, Madelaine HronPart VI. Sea CrossingsIntroduction, David FarrierZoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy, Joseph PuglieseThe Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery, Hakim Abderrezak'Island is no arrival': Migrants' Islandment at the Borders of Europe, Mariangela PalladinoAt Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees, Parvati NairPart VII. Digital Territories Introduction, Agnes WoolleyNetworked narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon, Mary MitchellRefugee writing, refugee history: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War, Dima Saber and Paul LongDigital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees, Btihaj AjanaThe Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness, Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne KennedyPart VIII. Home Introduction, David FarrierHome and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, Daniel HartleyAutobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, Mireille RoselloHoming as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village, Misha Myers and Mariam IssaPart IX. Open Cities Introduction, Sam Durrant'Another Politics of the City': Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism, Jonathan DarlingThe Welcome City?, Hannah Lewis and Louise WaiteIn the City's Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community, André GrahleOpen/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life, Sam Durrant...
