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Migration, Diaspora, Exile - Narratives of Affiliation and Escape (Hardcover)
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Migration, Diaspora, Exile - Narratives of Affiliation and Escape (Hardcover)
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Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as
the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States
and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and
deportations indicates. The essays by the international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer
critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical
precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in
narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are
variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions
in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or
exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the
figure of the "exile" as it moves across times, borders, and
genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the
refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures
of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that
link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the
volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and
transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora,
migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and
policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent
confrontations.
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