Witnessing asylum: Behrouz Boochanis writings from Manus Island Prison - Einzelansicht

MA Seminar - Witnessing asylum: Behrouz Boochani's writings from Manus Island Prison (9.1.15)

This course will focus on the work of Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian writer and asylum seeker who is currently being held on Manus Island as part of Australia’s Pacific Solution. The course will focus on his recent autobiographical work No Friend But the Mountains (2018), a book written entirely in the form of text messages sent to his translator on an illegally kept smartphone and which won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize earlier this year, but will also look at his co-directed film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (2017) and his journalistic writings. The course will contextualise his writings within the theoretical work by Australian scholars responding to Australia’s immigration detention regime.

Course participants will need to get hold of Boochani’s book No Friend But the Mountains which is now available on Amazon. All other readings will be provided.