Beyond Persecution: Exploring Alternative Refugee Narratives in Jenny Erpenbeck
In bureaucratic settings, complex refugee narratives are often converted into stereotypical accounts of persecution guided by questions asked by protection officers. This article explores potential room for improvement in these administrative dialogues on displacement through literary text analyses....
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Ghent University
2020-09-01
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| description | In bureaucratic settings, complex refugee narratives are often converted into stereotypical accounts of persecution guided by questions asked by protection officers. This article explores potential room for improvement in these administrative dialogues on displacement through literary text analyses. I argue that literature does not only operate as a platform to contest laws and policies, but also as a powerful source of alternative modes of narration in the context of asylum and migration. This point is demonstrated in a first case study of the dialogues on refuge in the European Union embedded in Jenny Erpenbeck’s acclaimed novel Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-881db37e68da44c7867d05a82471870e2022-12-22T04:04:57ZengGhent UniversityDiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies2593-02812020-09-017110.21825/digest.v7i1.15960Beyond Persecution: Exploring Alternative Refugee Narratives in Jenny ErpenbeckJessy CartonIn bureaucratic settings, complex refugee narratives are often converted into stereotypical accounts of persecution guided by questions asked by protection officers. This article explores potential room for improvement in these administrative dialogues on displacement through literary text analyses. I argue that literature does not only operate as a platform to contest laws and policies, but also as a powerful source of alternative modes of narration in the context of asylum and migration. This point is demonstrated in a first case study of the dialogues on refuge in the European Union embedded in Jenny Erpenbeck’s acclaimed novel Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015).https://www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/66185/ |
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