1st Edition
Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement Beyond Borders
Introduction Chapter 1: Revealing the Dichotomy: Necrocities and Broderscapes in Refugee Literature Chapter 2: Navigating Bureaucracy and Bare Life: Refugee Realities in Dina Nayeri's and Hassan Blasim's Narratives Chapter 3: Borders Within: Exclusion and Inclusion in Exit West and Crossing Chapter 4: From Border Control to Narrative Control: Refugee Testimony and Narrative Justice Chapter 5: Beyond Registration: Affective Residue and the Posthuman Trace in Zgheib’s No Land to Light On and Kochai’s The Haunting of Hajji Hotak; Conclusion: Unregistered Life and the Affective Limits of Law
Biography
Abida Younas is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, Associate Fellow at the University of Essex, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary postcolonial conditions in South Asia and the Middle East and their impact on literature. She has published widely in leading international peer-reviewed journals and delivered invited talks at conferences across Pakistan, the UK, Europe, and the USA.
