The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives
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London; New York: Routledge (2023), xviii, 509 pp.
Contains figures, index
Series: Routledge Literature Handbooks
ISBN 978-0-367-67478-6 (pbk); 978-1-003-13145-8 (ebook)
"This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. Addressing key characteristics and thematics of refugee narratives, this Handbook examines how refugee cultural productions are shaped by and in turn shape socio-political landscapes." (Publisher description)
PART I: STORYTELLING
1 Flights of Fancy: Imagination, Audacity, and Refugee Storytelling / Carrie Dawson, 15
2 Theorizing Unsettlement: Refugee Narratives as Literary Ration Cards / B. Venkat Mani, 26
3 Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form / Bishupal Limbu, 39
4 Coming Undone: Displacement, Trauma, and the Crisis of (Narrative) Agency / Asha Varadharajan, 50
PART II: GENRES AND CONVENTIONS
5 Refugee Noir / Sydney Van To, 65
6 Re-orienting the Gaze: Visualizing Refugees in Recent Film / Agnes Woolley, 77
7 Song, Sound, and Refugee Affect in Life of a Flower and Song Lang / Lan Duong, 88
8 Refugees to Worker-migrants: Transformations of Cross-Border Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Novels / Asis De, 100
PART III: VISUALITY AND VISIBILITY
9 'Through the Lens of a Refugee': Disrupting Visual Narratives of Displacement / Anna Carastathis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi, 115
10 Narrativizing Unarrival: Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific / M. Eliatamby-O'Brien, 128
11 If We Do Not Write Poetry, We Will Die: Afghan Diasporic Social Media Poetry for the Fall of Kabul / Zuzanna Olszewska, 140
12 Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives / Roopika Risam, 153
PART IV: MEDIATION AND POSITIONALITY
13 Up Close and Personal: Mediated Testimony and Narrative Tropes in Refugee Comics / Nina Mickwitz, 167
14 "I Am Myself": Queer Refugee Narratives / Elif Sar, 179
15 Applying RefugeeCrit to Recent Middle Grade/Young Adult Children's Literature About Refugees / Julia Hope, 191
16 Refugee Narrative Pedagogy: A Cultural Refugee Studies Approach / Erin Goheen Glanville, 202
PART V: BORDER-CROSSING
17 Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in Central American and U.S.-Central American Refugee Narratives / Regina Marie Mills, 217
18 The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive: Contesting the Refugee Narrative / Charmaine A. Nelson, 228
19 To the Editor: Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the 'Pakistani Muslim Citizen' in Punjab / Aalene Mahum Aneeq, 240
20 Iraq and the Work of the Frame / Angela Naimou, 252
PART VI: HEALTH AND (DIS)ABILITY
21 The Biopoetics of Health: Caribbean Refugee Narratives / April Shemak, 267
22 Refugee Race-ability: Bodies, Lands, Worlds / Y-Dang Troeung, 278
23 "Many Hands Lighten the Load": Health Lessons from San Diego during the Time of COVID-19 / Christiane Assefa, 291
PART VII: CARE AND KINSHIP
24 Affecting Appeals: Armenian Refugee Narratives in the Archives of Early Humanitarian Discourse / Veronika Zablotsky, 305
25 Fearless Faces: Motherhood and Gendered Mobility of North Korean Refugees in Jero Yun's Films / Eun Ah Cho, 317
26 Queer Refugee Homemaking: Lesbian and Gay Refugees' Oral Histories and Photovoice Narratives of Home / Katherine Fobear, 328
27 "Little Knowledges": Shifting Visions of Childhood, Care, and Technology in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration / Suncica Klaas, 341
PART VIII: LAND/WATER ECOLOGIES
28 Refugee Ecologies: The Elements, Flora, and Fauna in Refugee Narratives / Marguerite Nguyen, 355
29 Writing, Belonging, Forgetting: Waterscapes in Bangla Dalit Refugee Literature / Himadri Chatterjee, 368
30 Being Indigenous and Refugee: The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives / Eman Ghanayem, 381
PART IX: SPATIALITY AND CARTOGRAPHIES
31 Alternative Spatial Imaginaries: Refugees' Counter-Narratives of Settlement and Mobility in Patras / Marco Mogiani, 395
32 Letting Karst Mountains Bloom: Decentering the Secret War in Hmong American Literature and Art / Aline Lo, 407
33 Islands of Writers: Tracing an Archipelagic Literature / Kieren Kresevic Salazar, 418
34 Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games / Nathan Allen Jung, 431
PART X: TEMPORALITY AND FUTURITY
35 Songs against Boredom: Youth, Music, and Bosnian Exile / Alenka Bartulovi. and Miha Kozorog, 445
36 On Water, On Land: Sustainability of Refugee Lives in an Era of Ecological Crises / Emily Hue, 457
37 The Marshall Islands, Guam, and the Figure of Climate Refuge(e)s / Olivia Arlene Quintanilla, 470
38 Refugee Writing and the Problem of the Future / Hadji Bakara, 483
1 Flights of Fancy: Imagination, Audacity, and Refugee Storytelling / Carrie Dawson, 15
2 Theorizing Unsettlement: Refugee Narratives as Literary Ration Cards / B. Venkat Mani, 26
3 Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form / Bishupal Limbu, 39
4 Coming Undone: Displacement, Trauma, and the Crisis of (Narrative) Agency / Asha Varadharajan, 50
PART II: GENRES AND CONVENTIONS
5 Refugee Noir / Sydney Van To, 65
6 Re-orienting the Gaze: Visualizing Refugees in Recent Film / Agnes Woolley, 77
7 Song, Sound, and Refugee Affect in Life of a Flower and Song Lang / Lan Duong, 88
8 Refugees to Worker-migrants: Transformations of Cross-Border Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Novels / Asis De, 100
PART III: VISUALITY AND VISIBILITY
9 'Through the Lens of a Refugee': Disrupting Visual Narratives of Displacement / Anna Carastathis and Myrto Tsilimpounidi, 115
10 Narrativizing Unarrival: Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific / M. Eliatamby-O'Brien, 128
11 If We Do Not Write Poetry, We Will Die: Afghan Diasporic Social Media Poetry for the Fall of Kabul / Zuzanna Olszewska, 140
12 Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives / Roopika Risam, 153
PART IV: MEDIATION AND POSITIONALITY
13 Up Close and Personal: Mediated Testimony and Narrative Tropes in Refugee Comics / Nina Mickwitz, 167
14 "I Am Myself": Queer Refugee Narratives / Elif Sar, 179
15 Applying RefugeeCrit to Recent Middle Grade/Young Adult Children's Literature About Refugees / Julia Hope, 191
16 Refugee Narrative Pedagogy: A Cultural Refugee Studies Approach / Erin Goheen Glanville, 202
PART V: BORDER-CROSSING
17 Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in Central American and U.S.-Central American Refugee Narratives / Regina Marie Mills, 217
18 The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive: Contesting the Refugee Narrative / Charmaine A. Nelson, 228
19 To the Editor: Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the 'Pakistani Muslim Citizen' in Punjab / Aalene Mahum Aneeq, 240
20 Iraq and the Work of the Frame / Angela Naimou, 252
PART VI: HEALTH AND (DIS)ABILITY
21 The Biopoetics of Health: Caribbean Refugee Narratives / April Shemak, 267
22 Refugee Race-ability: Bodies, Lands, Worlds / Y-Dang Troeung, 278
23 "Many Hands Lighten the Load": Health Lessons from San Diego during the Time of COVID-19 / Christiane Assefa, 291
PART VII: CARE AND KINSHIP
24 Affecting Appeals: Armenian Refugee Narratives in the Archives of Early Humanitarian Discourse / Veronika Zablotsky, 305
25 Fearless Faces: Motherhood and Gendered Mobility of North Korean Refugees in Jero Yun's Films / Eun Ah Cho, 317
26 Queer Refugee Homemaking: Lesbian and Gay Refugees' Oral Histories and Photovoice Narratives of Home / Katherine Fobear, 328
27 "Little Knowledges": Shifting Visions of Childhood, Care, and Technology in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration / Suncica Klaas, 341
PART VIII: LAND/WATER ECOLOGIES
28 Refugee Ecologies: The Elements, Flora, and Fauna in Refugee Narratives / Marguerite Nguyen, 355
29 Writing, Belonging, Forgetting: Waterscapes in Bangla Dalit Refugee Literature / Himadri Chatterjee, 368
30 Being Indigenous and Refugee: The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives / Eman Ghanayem, 381
PART IX: SPATIALITY AND CARTOGRAPHIES
31 Alternative Spatial Imaginaries: Refugees' Counter-Narratives of Settlement and Mobility in Patras / Marco Mogiani, 395
32 Letting Karst Mountains Bloom: Decentering the Secret War in Hmong American Literature and Art / Aline Lo, 407
33 Islands of Writers: Tracing an Archipelagic Literature / Kieren Kresevic Salazar, 418
34 Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games / Nathan Allen Jung, 431
PART X: TEMPORALITY AND FUTURITY
35 Songs against Boredom: Youth, Music, and Bosnian Exile / Alenka Bartulovi. and Miha Kozorog, 445
36 On Water, On Land: Sustainability of Refugee Lives in an Era of Ecological Crises / Emily Hue, 457
37 The Marshall Islands, Guam, and the Figure of Climate Refuge(e)s / Olivia Arlene Quintanilla, 470
38 Refugee Writing and the Problem of the Future / Hadji Bakara, 483
