A postmigrant contrapuntal reading of the refugee crisis and its discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of illustrations 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Part I: Discourses and interventions
6. Postmigrant Europe: Discoveries beyond ethnic, national and colonial boundaries 45
7. When do societies become postmigrant? 57
8. Contested crises 75
9. “The cultural capital of postmigrants is enormous” 87
10. A postmigrant contrapuntal reading of the refugee crisis and its discourse 109
11. Part II: Cultural representations
12. Class, knowledge and belonging 133
13. Postmigrant remembering in mnemonic affective spaces 145
14. “I don’t write about me, I write about you” 161
15. Towards an aesthetics of migration 181
16. Towards an aesthetics of postmigrant narratives 197
17. We Are Here 221
18. Part III: Postmigrant spaces
19. The square, the monument and the re-configurative power of art in postmigrant public spaces 235
20. Recovering migrant spaces in Laurent Maffre’s graphic novel Demain, Demain 265
21. Zamakan: Towards a contrapuntal image 283
22. “Tense encounters” 299
23. Contemplating the coronavirus crisis through a postmigrant lens? 319
24. Contributors 341