Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge

by Mike Classon Frangos (Editor), Sheila Ghose (Editor)

Overview

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.

Chapter(s) “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031092596
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 Södertörn University, Sweden. She has published on British Asian literature and on postcolonial Sweden.

Table of Contents

1. Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form.- Part I. Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry.- 2. “How Do we Survive the Memory of So Much Waiting?”: Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee.- 3. Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs.- 4. Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s.- Part II. Performance and Documentary Media.- 5. Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys.- 6. Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe.- 7. On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy.- Part III. The Refugee Novel.- 8. Splitting Apart, Coming Together: Bildung (…shards…) into Mosaic-Being through Performance of the Refugee and Forced-Migration Bildungsroman.- 9. Shattered Forms: Transnational Migration Literatures in Melilla and the Balkan Refugee Route.- 10. “Slowly Into Darkness”: Postmemory in Alison Pick’s Far to Go and Natasha Solomons’ Mr Rosenblum’s List.- 11. Responding to Refugee Children: Transfigurations of Genre and Form in Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive.- Part IV. Coda.- 12. The Refugee Imaginary. 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“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)