Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editor(s): Daniel H. Rellstab & Christiane Schlote
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 304 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Switzerland, Colombia
People: Iraqi, South Asian, Vietnamese
Topic: Representation, War, Civil War, Migrants, Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Refugee System, Refugee Resettlement, Borders, Victimhood, Violence & Mass Violence, Invasion, Occupation, Gender; Memory, Remembering and Forgetting; Social/Aid Workers, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism; Identity, Secularism, The Notion of Home, Consumerism & Entertainment, Culture & Society, Conflict & Post-Conflict, Politics & Power, Arab Spring, Social Change, Challenges & Opportunities, Journalism, Art & Design, Visual, Documentary Film, Poetry, Creative Writing, Language & Literature, Theatre, Media & Narratives, Interdisciplinary Research, Research
War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts, the media, and in academic, public, and political discourses.
The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee, and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as ‘war,’ ‘refuge(e),’ ‘victim,’ ‘border,’ ‘home,’ ‘non-place,’ and ‘dis/location.’ Contributing authors engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding war, migration, and refugeehood as well as with the ways in which war and its multifarious effects and repercussions in society are being framed, propagated, glorified, or contested.
This volume initiates an interdisciplinary debate which re-evaluates the relationship between war, migration, and refugeehood and their representations.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction — Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote
PART I. STRATEGIES OF SEEING: WAR AND THE VISUAL ARTS
1. A Documentary Photographer’s Strategies of Representation in Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (1996) and in No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (2001) — Melanie Friend
2. Documentary, Memory and the Iraq Syndrome — Jeffrey Geiger
3. Beyond Mass Media: Representations of War between Art and Journalism — Markus Lohoff
PART II. REFUGEES, LANGUAGE, AND RESISTANCE
4. The Promise and Threat of the Shibboleth: Linguistic Representation of Asylum Seekers — Tim McNamara
5. Refugees? No Refugees? Categorizations of Migrants in the Wake of the Arab Spring in Swiss Online News and Comments — Daniel H. Rellstab
6. Narrating Change in and against Time in Colombia — Colette Daiute and Patricia Botero Gómez
7. At Home with the Unhomely: Vietnamese and Iraqi Narratives of Invasion, Occupation, and ‘Resettlement’ — Brenda Boyle
PART III. GLOBAL THEATRES OF WAR: STAGING CONFLICT AND CONCILIATION
8. Questions on Performances: In Place of War — James Thompson
9. Fostering Connectedness Through Narrative Involvement: Intercultural Community Theatre in Contexts of Migration and Refugeehood — Danièle M. Klapproth
10. Dramatizing the Congo: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid Workers and Gender — Christiane Schlote
PART IV. INTERRUPTING NARRATIVES: WAR, DISPLACEMENT, AND BEYOND
11. Pens and Swords: Creative Writing and Poetry in Post-Conflict and Displacement Settings — Franz Andres Morrissey
12. Reconfiguring Place and Identity in Roma Tearne’s Narratives of War and Refuge — Giovanna Buonanno
13. Refugees, Gender, and Secularism in South Asian Literature and Cinema — Kavita Daiya
List of Contributors
Index
Daniel H. Rellstab is a Professor for German Studies in a Global Context at Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, since 2018. The linguist received his doctorate and habilitation from Universität Bern, Switzerland. In 2003, he was a visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, from 2011 to 2017, he worked teaching linguistics, intercultural communication and semiotics at the University of Vaasan, Finland, and from 2017 to 2018 at the Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland. He authored a study on Charles S. Peirce and wrote on language and identity in multilingual contexts. Recently, he co-edited Dialog und (Inter-)Kulturalität. Theorien, Konzepte, empirische Befunde (with Simon Meier and Gesine L. Schiewer, 2014).
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Christiane Schlote is Professor of English and postcolonial literary at the University of Basel. She used to teach English, drama, and postcolonial literary and cultural studies at Berlin, Berne, Magdeburg and Zurich universities. Her main research and teaching interests include postcolonial and transnational theories and cultures (esp. South Asia, Africa and the Middle East), contemporary British and Anglophone drama, war and commemoration, migration and refugee discourses, petrofiction, postcolonial cityscapes and Latina/o American and Asian American culture. She studied English, Theatre, American Studies, Anthropology and Communication Studies in Berlin and Winston-Salem, NC. She is the author of Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches in New York (1997) and co-editor of New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama (with Peter Zenzinger, 2003) and Constructing Media Reality. The New Documentarism (with Eckart Voigts-Virchow, 2008).
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