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Uncommon Alliances - Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe (Hardcover)
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Uncommon Alliances - Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe (Hardcover)
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Examines European Union's neocolonial sovereignty in cultural
narratives of migration'Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of
Migration in the New Europe' takes a critical stance toward both
assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the
European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and
exclusion. Brining into conversation postcolonial and
post-communist migration narratives from Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe, it aims to capture the emergent shift from national to
postnational European space. Through its examination of cultural
texts, including works by Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila
Lalami, Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugresic and others, this book
traces EU neocolonial practices in relation to European history,
borders and guiding ideals of community, which exclude various
'others' from their symbolic imaginary. The book deliberately moves
the discussion away from social-scientific approaches to humanities
and offers a fresh intellectual framework for understanding
multicultural identity in Europe.Key FeaturesGoes beyond
traditional frameworks of cultural analysis (national, ethnic, or
language-based) by focusing on narratives which take the European
Union as a point of referenceShifts focus from narratives depicting
interactions between different cultures to those imagining
communities of solidarity based on common economic or historical
marginalisation in the European UnionRevises postcolonial theory by
arguing that the European Union exemplifies a new, 'consensual'
regime of colonial governanceOffers poststructuralist readings of
migrant narratives to go beyond the more common, multicultural
approaches to such narrativesDevelops original perspectives on
individual writers (Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila Lalami,
Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugresic, and others)Helps reorient European
Union studies, dominated by social sciences, to the humanities side
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