The Routledge handbook of refugee narratives / edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Vinh Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Espiritu Gandhi, Evyn Lê, 1991- editor of compilation.

Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor), editor.

Series:

Routledge literature handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees' writings--History and criticism.

Refugees' writings.

Refugees in literature.

Refugees in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays

Literary criticism

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Evyn L ̊Espiritu Gandhi is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Critical Ethnic Studies, Amerasia Journal, Canadian Review of American Studies, MELUS, American Quarterly and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine, was published in 2022. Vinh Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Diasporic Literature at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. His writing can be found in Social Text, MELUS, ARIEL, Canadian Literature, Life Writing, Migration and Society, and Canadian Review of American Studies. He is co-editor of Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada.

Summary:

"This companion presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives. In response to the oversaturation of sociological, governmental, and journalistic narratives about refugees, this book examines the narratives refugees tell to, for, and about themselves. Engaging a rich variety of genres--fiction, autobiography, prose, poetry, graphic novels, film, photography, performance, social media--the chapters included in this anthology examine how conditions of forced displacement and encounters with different asylum regimes shape the form and content of refugee cultural production. Chapters are organized around three key forms--storytelling, testimony, (auto)ethnography--and four key themes--memory (and forgetting), human rights (and its limitations), border-crossing (and nation-states), and cartographies (of displacement and diaspora). This volume will be of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners. In addition to analyzing refugee narratives, contributors offer pedagogical strategies for how to teach, discuss, and engage refugee narratives in the contemporary political moment"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Part I. Storytelling. Flights of Fancy : Imagination, Audacity, and Refugee Storytelling / Carrie Dawson

Theorizing Unsettlement : Refugee Narratives as Literary Ration Cards / B. Venkat Mani

Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form / Bishupal Limbu

Coming Undone : Displacement, Trauma and the Crisis of (Narrative) Agency / Asha Varadharajan

Part II. Genres and conventions. Refugee Noir / Sydney Van To

Re-orienting the Gaze : Visualizing Refugees in Recent Film / Agnes Woolley

Song, Sound, and Refugee Affect in Life of a Flower and Song Lang / Lan Duong

Refugees to Worker-migrants : Transformation of Cross-border Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Novels / Asis De

Part III. Visuality and visibility. "Through the Lens of a Refugee" : Disrupting Visual Narratives of Displacement / Anna Carastathis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi

Narrativizing Unarrival : Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific / M. Eliatamby-O'Brien

If We Do Not Write Poetry, We Will Die: Afghan Diasporic Social Media Poetry for the Fall of Kabul / Zuzanna Olszewska

Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives / Roopika Risam

Part IV. Mediation and Positionality. Up Close and Personal : Mediated Testimony and Narrative Tropes in Refugee Comics / Nina Mickwitz

"I am Myself" : Queer/Refugee Narratives / Elif Sarı

Applying RefugeeCrit to Recent Middle Grade/Young Adult Children's Literature About Refugees / Julia Hope

Refugee Narrative Pedagogy : A Cultural Refugee Studies Approach

Part V. Border-crossing. Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in Central American and US-Central American Refugee Narratives / Regina Marie Mills

The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive : Contesting the Refugee Narrative / Charmaine A. Nelson

To the Editor : Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the 'Pakistani Muslim Citizen' in Punjab / Aalene Mahum Aneeq

Iraq and the Work of the Frame / Angela Naimou

Part VI. Health and (Dis)ability. The Biopoetics of Health : Caribbean Refugee Narratives / April Shemak

Refugee Race-ability : Bodies, Lands, Worlds / Y-Dang Troeung

Many Hands Lighten the Load' : Health Lessons from San Diego during the Time of COVID-19 / Christiane Assefa

Part VII. Care and Kinship. Affecting Appeals : Armenian Refugee Narratives in the Archives of Early Humanitarian Discourse / Veronika Zablotsky

Fearless Faces : Motherhood and Gendered Mobility of North Korean Refugees in Jero Yun's Films / Eun Ah Cho

Queer Refugee Homemaking : Lesbian and Gay Refugees' Oral Histories and Photovoice Narratives of Home / Katherine Fobear

"Little Knowledges" : Shifting Visions of Childhood, Care, and Technology in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration / Suncica Klaas

Part VIII. Land/Water Ecologies. Refugee Ecologies : The Elements, Flora, and Fauna in Refugee Narratives / Marguerite Nguyen

Writing, Belonging, Forgetting : Waterscapes in Bangla Dalit Refugee Literature / Himadri Chatterjee

Being Indigenous and Refugee : The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives / Eman Ghanayem

Part IX. Spatiality and Cartographies. Alternative Spatial Imaginaries : Refugees' Counter-Narratives of Settlement and Mobility in Patras / Marco Mogiani

Letting Karst Mountains Bloom : Decentering the Secret War in Hmong American Literature and Art / Aline Lo

Islands of Writers : Tracing an Archipelagic Literature / Kieren Kresevic Salazar

Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games / Nathan Allen Jung

Part X. Temporality and Futurity. Songs Against Boredom : Youth, Music, and Bosnian Exile / Alenka Bartulović and Miha Kozorog

On Water, On Land : Sustainability of Refugee Lives in an Era of Ecological Crises / Emily Hue

The Marshall Islands, Guam, and the Figure of Climate Refuge(e)s / Olivia Arlene Quintanilla

Refugee Writing and the Problem of the Future / Hadji Bakara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and online resource, viewed February 20, 2023.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of refugee narratives.

ISBN:

9781003131458

100313145X

9781000852363

1000852369

1000852393

9781000852394

OCLC:

1370334147

Access Restriction:

Open Access

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