Chapter 8 Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Refugee Genealogies
6. Refugee Genealogies: Introduction 13
7. Chapter 1 Refugees in Modern World History 18
8. Chapter 2 Theories of the Refugee, after Hannah Arendt 36
9. Chapter 3 A Genealogy of Refugee Writing 50
10. Chapter 4 Genres of Refugee Writing 65
11. Part II Asylum
12. Asylum: Introduction 81
13. Chapter 5 Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law 86
14. Chapter 6 Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims 103
15. Chapter 7 The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and the City 123
16. Part III The Border
17. The Border: Introduction 141
18. Chapter 8 Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border 146
19. Chapter 9 Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours 165
20. Chapter 10 The Digital Border: The Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 ‘Migration Crisis’ 184
21. Part IV Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement
22. Intra/Extraterritorial Displacement: Introduction 205
23. Chapter 11 The ‘Dead Road’, Displacement and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone 210
24. Chapter 12 ‘What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?’: Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar’s The Return 228
25. Chapter 13 ‘A man carries his door’: Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry 248
26. Chapter 14 Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole 264
27. Part V The Camp
28. The Camp: Introduction 283
29. Chapter 15 Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps) 289
30. Chapter 16 Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects 311
31. Chapter 17 Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp 330
32. Part VI Sea Crossings
33. Sea Crossings: Introduction 351
34. Chapter 18 Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy 356
35. Chapter 19 The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery 372
36. Chapter 20 ‘Island is no arrival’: Migrants’ ‘Islandment’ at the Borders of Europe 392
37. Chapter 21 At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees 410
38. Part VII Digital Territories
39. Digital Territories: Introduction 423
40. Chapter 22 Networked Narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon 428
41. Chapter 23 Refugee Writing, Refugee History: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War 444
42. Chapter 24 Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafi cation of Refugees 463
43. Chapter 25 The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness 480
44. Part VIII Home
45. Home: Introduction 499
46. Chapter 26 Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen 503
47. Chapter 27 Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees 518
48. Chapter 28 Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village 533
49. Part IX Open Cities
50. Open Cities: Introduction 549
51. Chapter 29 ‘Another politics of the city’: Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism 554
52. Chapter 30 The Welcome City? 571
53. Chapter 31 In the City’s Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community 591
54. Chapter 32 Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life 608
55. Index 632