Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities - Paperback

by Emma Cox (Editor), Sam Durrant (Editor), David Farrier (Editor)

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representation

• Places refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities research

• Brings 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 politics

The 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.

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Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representation The 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. Emma Cox is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sam Durrant is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds. David Farrier is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Agnes Woolley is Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London.

Author Biography

Emma Cox is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Sam Durrant is Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature at Leeds University.
David Farrier is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Literature and Critical Theory at the University of East Anglia.
Agnes Woolley is Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London.