{"product_id":"migration-diaspora-exile-narratives-of-affiliation-and-escape-9781793617026","title":"Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering numerous fresh insights on migration, diaspora, and exile, this book is as timely as it is thought-provoking. Taking the familiar trope of the 'Mother of Exiles' from Emma Lazarus' public poem as starting point, it combines original work from a transdisciplinary group of scholars who approach migration and exile from the perspectives of social, literary and cultural studies as well as history and philosophy. What emerges is an intense exchange of ideas akin to what Achille Mbembe has called 'world-thinking', which can be truly transformative.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Astrid Böger, Universität Hamburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape – Editors’ Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 1: Literary Interventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Recuperating the Black Family in Graphic Narrative: Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage and Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Generational Doubling as Eth(n)ic Narrative Strategy: Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCathy Covell Waegner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: “As Much the Invader as the Native”: Investigating Immigrant and Indigenous Family Ties in Wendy Rose’s Itch Like Crazy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLudmila Martanovschi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Mothers\/Lovers of Exiles: Women Characters in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrycja Kurjatto-Renard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: The Securitized Migrant: Migrant Mobility and Kindred Alliances in Post-9\/11 New York Novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsabella Karlsson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 2: Filmic Interventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Mother(less) Exiles: The New Woman’s Absence from the Migration of the Expressionists to Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichele Rozga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Go West, Young Men: Teutonic Myths and American Westerns Blazed Path for the Acceptance of Nazism in Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCathy M. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: “What Pain It Was to Drown”: Quotidian Meets Tragic in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePage R. Laws\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Shifting Affiliations: Kinship Formation through Othering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Hansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 3: Civic Interventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: “Son, I Am Not Coming Here Anymore”: Migrations, Loss, Separation, Trauma, and the Underground Railroad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassandra L. Newby-Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Contested Affiliations: The Migration of US American War Resisters to Canada \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah J. Grünendahl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: “No Asylum from the Germans”: Policies of Deterrence and the Early West German Refugee Movement \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Kewes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Contesting Home, Nation, and Beyond: The Digital Space of New Migrants from Post-Gezi Turkey \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMine Gencel Bek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Religion, Family, Community, Difference: Immigrant Millennials in Cologne, Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAprilfaye T. Manalang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: “Space,” “Aliens,” and the “Race” to Belong: Changing Geographies and Moving Borders in Europe and the Americas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffroy de Laforcade\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042638365015,"sku":"9781793617026","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793617026.jpg?v=1750954957","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migration-diaspora-exile-narratives-of-affiliation-and-escape-9781793617026","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}