The Routledge handbook of refugee narratives /
edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Vinh Nguyen.
- 1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations
- Routledge literature handbooks .
Storytelling. Flights of Fancy : Imagination, Audacity, and Refugee Storytelling / Theorizing Unsettlement : Refugee Narratives as Literary Ration Cards / Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form / Coming Undone : Displacement, Trauma and the Crisis of (Narrative) Agency / Genres and conventions. Refugee Noir / Re-orienting the Gaze : Visualizing Refugees in Recent Film / Song, Sound, and Refugee Affect in Life of a Flower and Song Lang / Refugees to Worker-migrants : Transformation of Cross-border Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Novels / Visuality and visibility. "Through the Lens of a Refugee" : Disrupting Visual Narratives of Displacement / Narrativizing Unarrival : Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific / If We Do Not Write Poetry, We Will Die: Afghan Diasporic Social Media Poetry for the Fall of Kabul / Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives / Mediation and Positionality. Up Close and Personal : Mediated Testimony and Narrative Tropes in Refugee Comics / "I am Myself" : Queer/Refugee Narratives / Applying RefugeeCrit to Recent Middle Grade/Young Adult Children's Literature About Refugees / Refugee Narrative Pedagogy : A Cultural Refugee Studies Approach -- Border-crossing. Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in Central American and US-Central American Refugee Narratives / The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive : Contesting the Refugee Narrative / To the Editor : Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the 'Pakistani Muslim Citizen' in Punjab / Iraq and the Work of the Frame / Carrie Dawson -- B. Venkat Mani -- Bishupal Limbu -- Asha Varadharajan -- Sydney Van To -- Agnes Woolley -- Lan Duong -- Asis De -- Anna Carastathis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi -- M. Eliatamby-O'Brien -- Zuzanna Olszewska -- Roopika Risam -- Nina Mickwitz -- Elif Sarı -- Julia Hope -- Regina Marie Mills -- Charmaine A. Nelson -- Aalene Mahum Aneeq -- Angela Naimou -- Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Health and (Dis)ability. The Biopoetics of Health : Caribbean Refugee Narratives / Refugee Race-ability : Bodies, Lands, Worlds / Many Hands Lighten the Load' : Health Lessons from San Diego during the Time of COVID-19 / Care and Kinship. Affecting Appeals : Armenian Refugee Narratives in the Archives of Early Humanitarian Discourse / Fearless Faces : Motherhood and Gendered Mobility of North Korean Refugees in Jero Yun's Films / Queer Refugee Homemaking : Lesbian and Gay Refugees' Oral Histories and Photovoice Narratives of Home / "Little Knowledges" : Shifting Visions of Childhood, Care, and Technology in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration / Land/Water Ecologies. Refugee Ecologies : The Elements, Flora, and Fauna in Refugee Narratives / Writing, Belonging, Forgetting : Waterscapes in Bangla Dalit Refugee Literature / Being Indigenous and Refugee : The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives / Spatiality and Cartographies. Alternative Spatial Imaginaries : Refugees' Counter-Narratives of Settlement and Mobility in Patras / Letting Karst Mountains Bloom : Decentering the Secret War in Hmong American Literature and Art / Islands of Writers : Tracing an Archipelagic Literature / Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games / Temporality and Futurity. Songs Against Boredom : Youth, Music, and Bosnian Exile / On Water, On Land : Sustainability of Refugee Lives in an Era of Ecological Crises / The Marshall Islands, Guam, and the Figure of Climate Refuge(e)s / Refugee Writing and the Problem of the Future / April Shemak -- Y-Dang Troeung -- Christiane Assefa -- Veronika Zablotsky -- Eun Ah Cho -- Katherine Fobear -- Suncica Klaas -- Marguerite Nguyen -- Himadri Chatterjee -- Eman Ghanayem -- Marco Mogiani -- Aline Lo -- Kieren Kresevic Salazar -- Nathan Allen Jung -- Alenka Bartulović and Miha Kozorog -- Emily Hue -- Olivia Arlene Quintanilla -- Hadji Bakara. Part VI. Part VII. Part VIII. Part IX. Part X.
"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"--