Rejection of Victimhood in Literature : by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea /
Bosman, Sean James,
Rejection of Victimhood in Literature : by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea / by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea Sean James Bosman. - 1 online resource. - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441248 Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 96 . - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441248. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 96. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Comparative analysis.
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.
9789004469006 9789004468993
10.1163/9789004469006 DOI
2021026833
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- --Criticism and interpretation.
Urrea, Luis Alberto--Criticism and interpretation.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Victims in literature.
Literary criticism.
PN56.M27
809/.8920691
Rejection of Victimhood in Literature : by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea / by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea Sean James Bosman. - 1 online resource. - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441248 Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 96 . - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441248. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 96. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Comparative analysis.
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.
9789004469006 9789004468993
10.1163/9789004469006 DOI
2021026833
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- --Criticism and interpretation.
Urrea, Luis Alberto--Criticism and interpretation.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Victims in literature.
Literary criticism.
PN56.M27
809/.8920691