Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World - Making Space for the Human

Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Non-Place


• 2: Writing Against Expulsion


• 3: Moving


• 4: Making


• 5: Speaking


• Conclusion


• Acknowledgements


• Bibliography

About the author

David Herd is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including All Just, described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as 'one of the few truly necessary works of poetry written on either side of the Atlantic in the past decade', and Walk Song, a Book of the Year in the Australian Book Review. He has given readings and lectures in Europe, North America, India, and Australia and held visiting fellowships at George Mason University, Simon Fraser University, and the Gloucester Writers Center. He is Director of Impact and The Berry Chair of Literature & Human Rights at the University of St Andrews (previously Professor of Poetry at University of Kent) and co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales.

Summary

Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.

Additional text

Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World is a lucid and compelling report on the individual at the mercy of the bureaucracy of immigration control, `the geo-political non-person`, and how the condition of this figure relates to the aftermath of the 1939-45 War and the subsequent moment of decolonisation. It takes us through the political, philosophical and literary contexts with fluency, passion and rigour. Its engagement with the texts through which the argument progresses is extensive and thoroughly persuasive, and allows the reader to witness the personal journey Herd himself travelled in understanding the issues that are the subject of this wonderful and important book.

Product details

• Authors: Herd , Herd, David Herd, David (Professor of Modern Literature Herd, David (Professor of Poetry Herd, Prof David (Professor of Modern Literature Herd, Herd David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9780192872258
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287225-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / General, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Human rights, civil rights, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum