Representations of War Migration and Refugeehood Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Literature

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War migration and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields practices and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts the media and in academic public and political discourses. The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as ‘war ’ ‘refuge(e) ’ ‘victim ’ ‘border ’ ‘home ’ ‘non-p…