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UCLA Book Launch for The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

This UCLA book launch will celebrate the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives. This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, poetry, memoirs, comics, films, photography, music, social media, data, graffiti, letters, reports, eco-design, video games, archival remnants, and ethnography, the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. Addressing key characteristics and thematics of refugee narratives, this Handbook examines how refugee cultural productions are shaped by and in turn shape socio-political landscapes. This book launch will feature presentations from eight of the volume's thirty-eight authors.

Mar 16, 2023 12:30 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)