Representations of war, migration, and refugeehood : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Daniel H. Rellstab and Christiane Schlote.
"War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and bac...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Strategies of Seeing: War and the Visual Arts; 1 A Documentary Photographer's Strategies of Representation in Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (1996) and in No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (2001); 2 Documentary, Memory, and the Iraq Syndrome; 3 Beyond Mass Media: Representations of War between Art and Journalism; PART II Refugees, Language, and Resistance; 4 The Promise and Threat of the Shibboleth: Linguistic Representations of Asylum Seekers.
- 5 Refugees? No Refugees? Categorizations of Migrants in the Wake of the Arab Spring in Swiss Online News and Comments6 Narrating Change in and against Time in Colombia; 7 At Home with the Unhomely: Vietnamese and Iraqi Narratives of Invasion, Occupation, and "Resettlement"; PART III Global Theaters of War: Staging Conflict and Conciliation; 8 Questions on Performances: In Place of War; 9 Fostering Connectedness through Narrative Involvement: Intercultural Community Theater in Contexts of Migration and Refugeehood; 10 Dramatizing the Congo: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid Workers, and Gender.
- PART IV Interrupting Narratives: War, Displacement, and Beyond11 Pens and Swords: Creative Writing and Poetry in Post-Conflict and Displacement Settings; 12 Reconfiguring Place and Identity in Roma Tearne's Narratives of War and Refuge; 13 Refugees, Gender, and Secularism in South Asian Literature and Cinema; List of Contributors; Index.