Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination - Transcultural Movements

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination presents the first transcultural study of women's forced migration and how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration.

List of contents

Preface: Walking with the River
1. Moving Women, Moving Stories: Forced Migration in the Transcultural Feminist Imagination
2. An Expectant Figure: Encountering the 'Refugee Crisis' through Literary Maternal Feminism
3. Feminisms in Conflict: Decolonising Afghan Women's Displacement through the Iranian Cinematic Gaze
4. Sounding Out Dissent: Learning to Listen to Women in Detention through Sonic Creativities
5. No Straightforward Journey: Traversing Queer Feminist Territories through a Poetics of Crossing
Conclusion: Creative Mobilisations

About the author

Anna Ball is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures, and Cultures at Nottingham Trent University, U.K. Working across literary, filmic, and artistic mediums, her research operates at the intersection of postcolonial feminist literary and cultural studies, and focusses primarily on the gendered politics of mobility, agency, and cultural expression at stake within sites of political instability in the Middle East and among its resulting global flows of forced migrants. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2018-19 in support of this work. Firmly committed to transcultural feminist community-building, she also engages in collaborative cultural work that enables those within forced migrant communities to explore their creative agency.

Summary

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination presents the first transcultural study of women’s forced migration and how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Ball, Anna (Nottingham Trent University Ball, Ball Anna
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032110967
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211096-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Theatre Studies, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature