Overview
Examines representations of refugees in literature, arts and the media
Takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining migration research with arts and humanities theories
Chapters cover life-writing, graphic novels, theater, film, coming-of-age stories, street literature and the novel
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About this book
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 springer.longhoe.net.
Chapter(s) “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via springer.longhoe.net.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry
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Performance and Documentary Media
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The Refugee Novel
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Coda
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Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Sheila Ghose is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has published on British Asian literature and on postcolonial Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Refugee Genres
Book Subtitle: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge
Editors: Mike Classon Frangos, Sheila Ghose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09257-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09256-5Published: 15 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09259-6Published: 15 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09257-2Published: 14 December 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 250
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Migration, Screen Studies