Writing in Times of Displacement

The Existential and Other Discourses
Herausgeber: Mbuh, Mbuh Tennu; Clammer, John; Chakravorty, Meera

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781032198491
• ISBN-10: 1032198494
• Artikelnr.: 64653587

Autorenporträt

Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon. Meera Chakravorty is Research Faculty in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore, India. John Clammer is Professor of Sociology in the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Displacement: Philosophy, History, Experience 1
Disaster's Offspring: Catastrophe, Narrative, and Society 2 A Philosophy of
Displacement: The Ethics of a Passer-by 3 America in the Contemporary
Postcolonial African Imagination: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing
Around your Neck 4 Nativising Colonial Ghosts in the Postcolony: A
Composite Perspective on Displacement 5 Asking the Right Kind of Questions:
Seeing India through the Eyes of Slavoj iek 6 The Philosophy of
Displacement: Re-reading Hannah Arendt in NRC Times Part II: The Literary
Politics and Phenomenology of Displacement and Belonging 7 Seyla Benhabib's
"The right to have rights" 8 The Library of the Migrants: Dissemination of
Books as Dissemination of the Self? (or, "How to Motivate Books to Wander")
Bianca Boteva-Richter Part III: Writing Displacement 9 Writing in Times of
Displacement: Towards Transformation 10 Voices Beyond Borders: Exile and
Refugee Poetry and Performance 11 Poetics of Displacement and a New
Vocation of Dwelling: The Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility of Home and
the World 12 Visa Politics and the Paradox of the Transnational in
Chimamanda Ngozi Adecie's Americanah 13 Writing Displacement: Memory,
Violence and their Ancillaries in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: The True
Story of a child Soldier Part IV: Locating Displacement 14 Discourses of
Displacement 'Development', Resource Conflict and Political Opportunism in
Odisha