Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence

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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. Acknowledgments Praise for Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture Contents List of Figures 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 Pencil2 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 Ones The Architecture of Occupation Here Distances Always Measure the Same Plan Dalet Tracing History An Infinity of Traces A Jar in Ramallah Postscript: An Incurable Malady References Index