Refugee Narratives - Einzelansicht

This course takes literary narratives of refuge and asylum-seeking as its focus, and places them within the wider context of the politics of representation and storytelling. We will consider the wider politico-cultural forces at work that shape the kinds of stories deemed intelligible and marketable, that determine whose voices are heard and question, that make storytelling central to the experience and process of asylum-seeking. But before this, we will question the very basis of the course: what even is a refugee narrative? Who decides what counts as a refugee narrative? What literary modes dominate in the marketplace of refugee narratives? And what does it mean to frame a narrative as a refugee narrative? These questions will accompany us as we read a range of literary texts.

    

short essay / kurze schriftliche Arbeit