Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

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.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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 World

The Longest Journey

Reversing the Appearance of the Frontier

References

3 Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees

Crisis at the Border The Liberal Dilemma

Mapping Separation

Storying the Stranger

Telling the Story Differently

Into the Abyss Writing the Migrant into the Narrative

Writing 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...