Rejection of victimhood in literature : by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea / by Sean James Bosman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosman, Sean James, author.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 96.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; ; Volume 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Victims in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Agent (Philosophy) in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.

Contents:

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Luis Alberto Urrea

Comparative analysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46900-1

OCLC:

1260171871

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004469006 DOI