REFUGEE GENRES : essays on the culture of flight and refuge

This volume brings together research on the forms, genres, media and histories of refugee migration. Chapters come from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches, including literature, film studies, performance studies and postcolonial studies. The goal is to bring together chapters that use the perspectives of the arts and humanities to study representations of refugee migration. The chapters of the anthology are organized around specific forms and genres: life-writing and memoir, the graphic novel, theater and music, film and documentary, coming-of-age stories, street literature, and the literary novel. Chapter(s) “Chapter 1.” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form Defining Refugee Genres Genre Histories of Human Rights Migrant Performance and Media Overview of Chapters References Part I: Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry Chapter 2: “How Do we Survive the Memory of So Much Waiting?”: Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee The Pain of Others The Untranslatable Element Conclusion References Chapter 3: Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs Refugee Graphic Memoir Post-Vietnam War Memories and Refugee Comics Refugee History and Postmemory in G.B. Tran’s Vietnamerica Feminist Refugee Autobiography in Thi Bui’s the Best we Could Do Conclusion References Chapter 4: Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s Tayeb Salih: Cyprus and Insularity Suad Amiry: Cyprus as a Bridge Conclusions References Part II: Performance and Documentary Media Chapter 5: Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin) Part One: Home and Being at Home When One Leaves Home Moving Away and Arriving by Reinhabiting Space Part Two: For me, Actually, It Was Not That Hard Conclusion Appendix: Song Lyrics Kobani (Written by Ismaeel Foustok and Pago Balke) Aleppo (Written by Pago Balke and Ismaeel Foustok) Regen Am Fenster (Written by Azad Kour) Werder-Jacke (Written by Azad Kour) Held (Written by Ismaeel Foustok) References Chapter 6: Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe Introduction ‘Stranger danger’ and Theatres of Migration From Border to Border: Destabilising Bordering Conclusion: Repositioning Migrancy Through Theatre References Chapter 7: On the Necropolitics of Contemporary Human Uprootedness: Ecocentric Empathy in Documentary Film and Philosophy Introduction War Refugees in Daphne Matziaraki’s 4.1 miles (2016) Environmental Refugees in Michael Nash’s Climate Refugees (2010) Developmental Refugees in Kalyanee Mam’s Lost World (2018) Human Uprootedness in Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Powaqqatsi (1988) Conclusion References Part III: The Refugee Novel Chapter 8: Splitting Apart, Coming Together: Bildung (...shards...) into Mosaic-Being through Performance of the Refugee and Forced-Migration Bildungsroman Truth of Structure Identity of Narrator/Subject(s) Sense of (Con)Text Performance into Being References Chapter 9: Shattered Forms: Transnational Migration Literatures in Melilla and the Balkan Refugee Route Introduction Ávila Laurel’s Migration Novel Hassan Blasim’s Refugee Genres The Location of Migrant Literature Conclusion References Chapter 10: “Slowly Into Darkness”: Postmemory in Alison Pick’s Far to Go and Natasha Solomons’ Mr Rosenblum’s List Introduction: Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in Twenty-First-Century Novels “Construct Little Narratives”: Postmemory, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Far to Go “Cakes to Remember”: Creating and Sharing Post/Memory in Mr Rosenblum’s List Conclusion References Chapter 11: Responding to Refugee Children: Transfigurations of Genre and Form in Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive I II III IV References Part IV: Coda Chapter 12: The Refugee Imaginary References Correction to: Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form Correction to: Index