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Figures of the Migrant - The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (Hardcover)
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Figures of the Migrant - The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant
and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that
examine works in a range of art forms - novels, theatre, poetry,
creative non-fiction, documentary films and performance and video
installations - that evoke a variety of historical and
(trans)national contexts, the volume focuses on the question of the
roles of literature and the arts in representing migration. An
important issue considered is the extent to which artistic
figuration can act as a counterpoint to social discourse on
migrants that often involves stereotypes and reductive views. The
different contributions to the volume illustrate that literature
and the arts can provide readers and viewers with a space for fluid
knowledge production and affective expansion and that within that
overarching function, artistic works play three main roles with
regard to representing migration: undertaking a socio-political and
cultural critique, presenting alternative views to stereotypes that
highlight the singularity and complexity of the migrant and
providing proposals for different futures.
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