Negotiations of Migration in Artistic and Critical Practices: Reexamining the Past and Present in Contemporary Europe

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At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of "conflict" and "crisis", it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. This volume focuses on the potential of artistic and critical practices to challenge hegemonic framings of migration and embrace the ambivalence inherent in migration as a conflictual, often violent, yet also liberating uprooting. By placing special emphasis on "peripheral" perspectives and subject positions, the volume provides new insights into topics such as belonging and exclusion, the "migrant crisis", and memory. By bringing into dialogue creative practices and academic discourses, it explores how new modes of seeing and theorizing may emerge through experiences and representations of migration. Situated within the field of literary and cultural studies, it complements historical and social analyses in the emerging interdisciplinary field of migration studies. Acknowledgements Contents Displacing Europe’s Past and Present: Reexamining Migration in Artistic and Critical Practices 1 Discourses of Communality, Belonging, and Exclusion in Postmigrant Societies in Europe Domus Europa: A European Post-Colonial and Post-Migration Projection Migration and Boundaries of Belonging in Short Films and Moving Image Installations Negotiating Migration in European Theater in/beyond “Thinking-as-Usual” 2 Responses to Frames of Conflict and Crisis Perpetual Crisis: Post-apocalyptic Refugee Timescapes in Richard Mosse’s Incoming (2014–2017) Borderlines: Lip Sewing in No Man’s Land War on Images: The Art of Provoking (Re)Actions Migrations in Collective-based Visual Practices: From the American Great Depression of the 1930s to Post-2008 Europe 3 Rethinking Collective and Individual Pasts in the Context of Migration History in the Making: Minor Immigrant Film Studies as Memory Activism The Self Remembered. The Poetics of Dislocation and Translatedness in Contemporary Memoirs The Returnees in Portuguese Literature Before the Literature of the Return Remediating Archives of Transit and Exile in Portugal between 1933 and 1945: Ethical Potentialities of Memory in Daniel Blaufuk’s Sob Céus Estranhos and João Canijo’s Fantasia Lusitana About the Authors Index of Names