Rejection of Victimhood in Literature

By Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46899-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 96, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James Bosman, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Sean James Bosman is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Rhodes in 2020. His research concentrates on articulations of memory in transnational literature.