Postcolonial asylum : seeking sanctuary before the law / David Farrier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrier, David, 1979- author.

Series:

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 9.

Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of.

Emigration and immigration.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary culture of host nations casts asylum seekers as contemporary incarnations of the infrahuman object of colonial sovereignty.Postcolonial Asylum includes readings of the work of asylum seeker and postcolonial authors and filmmakers, including J.M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leila Aboulela, Stephen Frears, Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Winterbottom.These readings are framed by the work of postcolonial theorists (Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, Achille Mbembe), as well as other influential thinkers (Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Emmanuel Levinas, Étienne Balibar, Zygmunt Bauman), in order to institute what Spivak calls a 'step beyond' postcolonial studies; one that carries with it the insights and limitations of the discipline as it looks to new ways for postcolonial studies to engage with the world.

Contents:

Before the law. A scandal for postcolonial studies

The camp dispositif

Overview

Nothing outside the law. The colonization of the in-between

Kenomatic fetish

The heritage of colonial infrahumanity

Necropolitics and national narcissism

Horizons of perception. In/visible relations

Gorgoneion

Horizon of perception 1 : the camp in the city

Horizon of perception 2 : the camp and the dispersal system

Horizon of perception 3 : the camp and asylum destitution

Be/held : ban and iteration. Be/held

Bogus women

Re/producing 'home'

Continua

Allow me my destitution. Parasitic reading and reading parasites

Dead letters

Kalumnia and formula

'Let me become the echo of a name to you'

Preference and assumption

Terms of hospitality. The receding refugee

Asylos/Asylao

The transgressive step

The necessary other

The politics of proximity. Response-ability

Metaxis

The journey is the film is the journey

The limits of dignity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).

ISBN:

1-78138-812-1

1-84631-713-4

OCLC:

732956427