DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Roger Bromley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:20th Jun '21

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture cover

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives—cinematic, photographic, and literary—produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative “map” of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aim of opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric.

ISBN: 9783030735951

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 473g

247 pages