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Research in Twenty-first Century Writings | School of Humanities | University of Brighton [email protected]

University of Brighton UK Katılım Mart 2014
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Mikkel Krause Frantzen
Mikkel Krause Frantzen@frantzen_mikkel·
There is a postdoc position in the research project on finance fiction at Uni of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=… Come and work with me and @polemologos and get a good adult salary and enjoy Scandinavian socialism lol. Please share! Deadline is soon!
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Dr Rose Harris-Birtill
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Q for academic folk who've published/are publishing their PhD thesis: I'm giving a workshop for PhD students on turning your thesis into a book tomorrow (Fri 14 Mar, 1pm @staenglish @univofstandrews). What do you wish you'd known that would have helped along the way? Thanks all!
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Motherhood is a flexible concept that changes in different contexts and different cultures. This is made apparent by unpicking the simplified image of the refugee mother. Anna Ball #WritingRefugees
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Anna Ball argues that Nada Awar Jarrar's An Unsafe Haven unpicks the easy representation of the refugee mother by representing maternal ambivalence. Jarrar depicts the complex emotions of motherhood and contests the discourses of popular representation. #WritingRefugees
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1 in 10 of Syrian refugees reported to be pregnant suggests motherhood and maternity are an under discussed element of refugeeness. By contrast the figure of the mother is central to humanitarian iconography. (Anna Ball) #WritingRefugees
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Now, Anna Ball on the refugee mother in literary discourse. Contrasting popular vilification with humanitarian reverence. #WritingRefugees
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The experiments of Ban en Banlieu by Bhanu Kapil unpick the formal scaffolding of the novel @___c_h_r_i_s__ . The exposes the myth of unitary and linear human life that the nation demands and that novels support #WritingRefugees
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The novel is not a neutral platform for staging a discussion of rights but is a technology of power @___c_h_r_i_s__ . However, the mingling of the personal with physical journeys in the novel allows these texts to interrogate the political. #WritingRefugees
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Up next @___c_h_r_i_s__ on movement and subjectivity in recent fiction. How do contemporary novel interrogate the question of whether individuals have the right to live wherever they want? #WritingRefugees
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Both The Wandering Falcon and The Collaborator demonstrate the value of 'paper' as a technique of the border. @GatsbysCar shows how these novels perform the absences and efficacies of documents as a technology of state control. #WritingRefugees
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In our second panel @GatsbysCar discusses Jamil Ahmad The Wandering Falcon and Mirza Waheed The Collaborator to think about the different kind of border regulations in Pakistan's eastern and western borders. #WritingRefugees
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Are we 'rushing refugee literature' asks Sophie Kelly. Have we too quickly demanded that refugee art display certain characteristics while refugee are might be still emerging? #WritingRefugees
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.@arekigo discussing how to de-subjectivise refugees by opening up a space for opacity in their own account of refugeedom through graffiti mural in Beruit. #WritingRefugees
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Sophie Kelly launching our Writing Refugees symposium by thinking through the problems of biographical coherence in Kate Clanchy's Antigona and Me.
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