Refugee Talk - Propositions on Ethics and Aesthetics

An innovative approach to the refugee crisis through a focus on language use, discourse and representation

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Framing Crisis

1. Humanity - Ontology, Location and Migration

2. Responsibility - News Media and the (Re)framing of Refugees

3. Solidarity - Storytelling as Activism

4. Recognition - Refugee Literature and Defamiliarisation

Framing Hope

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Eva Rask Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at Copenhagen University, Denmark. Most recently, she is co-author with Ulla Rahbek of In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature.
Ulla Rahbek is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at Copenhagen University, Denmark. Most recently, she is the author of British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity and co-author with Eva Rask Knudsen of In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Ulla Rahbek, Ulla (Copenhagen University Rahbek, Rahbek Ulla, Eva Rask Knudsen, Eva (Copenhagen University Rask Knudsen
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2022
• EAN: 9780745344423
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4442-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General