<p ><span style=""font-style:italic;"" >Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre
Cover; Contents; Part I: Hospitable Representations; Part II: Refugees on Film; Part III: Staging Asylum; Part IV: Asylum in a Global Era; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Exposure; Introduction to Part I; 1 Narrator as Host in Graham Swift's The Light of Day; 2 'Communicable Empathy': Reading Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore; Conclusion to Part I; Introduction to Part II; 3 Screening Asylum: Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort; 4 States of Belonging: Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men; Conclusion to Part II; Introduction to Part III
5 Authenticating Asylum: Kay Adshead's The Bogus Woman6 Europe, History and Myth in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Credible Witness; Conclusion to Part III; Introduction to Part IV; 7 Globalization: Crisis and Celebration in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand; 8 Cosmopolitan Representation: Kate Clanchy's Antigona and Me; Conclusion to Part IV; Conclusion: An Uncertain Belonging; Notes; Works Cited; Index