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Postcolonial Asylum
David Farrier
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Description for Postcolonial Asylum
Paperback. This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary culture of host nations casts asylum seekers as contemporary incarnations of the infrahuman object of colonial sovereignty. Postcolonial Asylum includes readings of the work of asylum seeker and postcolonial authors and filmmakers, including J.M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leila Aboulela, Stephen Frears, Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Winterbottom. These readings are framed by the work of postcolonial theorists (Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, Achille Mbembe), as well as ... Read more
Postcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary culture of host nations casts asylum seekers as contemporary incarnations of the infrahuman object of colonial sovereignty. Postcolonial Asylum includes readings of the work of asylum seeker and postcolonial authors and filmmakers, including J.M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leila Aboulela, Stephen Frears, Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Winterbottom. These readings are framed by the work of postcolonial theorists (Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, Achille Mbembe), as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318726
SKU
V9781846318726
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99-30
About David Farrier
David Farrier is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Unsettled Narratives: the Pacific writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London. Routledge, 2007. ‘Terms of hospitality: Adbulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43.3 (2008) ‘“The other is the neighbour”: the limits of dignity in Caryl Philips’s A Distant Shore’, ... Read more
Reviews for Postcolonial Asylum
As the first scholarly monograph to examine asylum in relation to postcolonial studies, David Farrier’s Postcolonial Asylum makes a theoretically rich contribution to the field.
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A densely theoretical yet politicised and interdisciplinary book that signals an important new trajectory in postcolonial and cultural studies, towards interrogation of the plight of those looking ... Read more
(Con)figuring Sport - Moving worlds 12.1
A densely theoretical yet politicised and interdisciplinary book that signals an important new trajectory in postcolonial and cultural studies, towards interrogation of the plight of those looking ... Read more