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.
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Roger Bromley is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and, formerly, Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (2000) and a number of other books and scholarly articles.
Inhalt
1 Introduction
Political and Theoretical Context
Textual Methods
The Im/Mobilities Paradigm
Refugee Journeys
Borders
Decoloniality
Global Context
Chapter Outline
References
2 People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope
Not Belonging and Unwanted
Somewhere in the EU
No Longer in this WorldThe Longest Journey
Reversing the Appearance of the Frontier
References
3 Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees
Crisis at the Border
The Liberal DilemmaMapping Separation
Storying the Stranger
Telling the Story Differently
Into the Abyss
Writing the Migrant into the NarrativeWriting a Name in the Sky
Leveraging the Queue as a Technology
References
4 Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey
Telling a Story with a Voiceless Pencil
In the Labyrinth
The European Middle Ages
Calais Context
Framing the Dispossessed
In the Grey Zones
References
5 Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses
White Genocide The Southern Gaze
Elsewhere and Here: Revisiting the Colonial Encounter
Silenced Deaths
Unequal Mobility Regime
References
6. Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the
West Bank of Palestine
Time, Space and Mobility
Naziheen, the Displaced On...