Refugee imaginaries: research across the humanities

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsRead the IntroductionThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness.Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry."

Chapter 12 'What do you do when you cannotleave and cannot return?': Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar's The Return -- Chapter 13 'A man carries his door': Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry -- Chapter 14 Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole -- Part V The Camp -- The Camp: Introduction -- Chapter 15 Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps) -- Chapter 16 Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects -- Chapter 17 Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp -- Part VI Sea Crossings