Refugees and Technology in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Techfugees’ Technological Erasure

AvBayan AlAmmouri,Anthony Mandal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Adapting an interdisciplinary approach that brings together literary studies, refugee studies, technology studies, and biopolitical theories, this book looks at contemporary Anglophone literature to examine how digital tools such as smartphones, cameras, and drones shape the refugee experience, offering new forms of surveillance, resistance, and identity.Drawing on narratives from the Global South, particularly those affected by conflict and displacement, the book illustrates how refugees use technology to document, communicate, and resist technological erasure in the face of political and social systems that often marginalize them. The book positions refugee narratives as hybrid literary spaces, where erasure gives way to new forms of resistance, offering a powerful metaphor for the resilience of displaced people in the 21st century. By engaging with technological erasure practices, it also highlights how technology and flight intersect, reshaping how refugees relate to both their pasts and their new realities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:344 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350594746

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Bayan AlAmmouri is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Jordan, Jordan.

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This book is both timely and essential. It demonstrates with masterly analytical skill the difficult conditions of existence into which refugees are forced within a world shaped by human rights claims, technological control, and denied freedoms. Bayan AlAmmouri offers a brilliant exposition of the role modern technology plays in curtailing and erasing rights, while illuminating the condition of refugees through anglophone literary texts, biographical memory, and cultural materials. This is a sophisticated and astute study that fills an important gap in the literature at a time when the world remains saturated with imperial and colonial violence, with overwhelming consequences—particularly for refugees.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures Glossary Forward Acknowledgments Introduction1. Wirelessness: Mobility, Connectivity and the Cellphone in Anglophone Refugee Narratives2. Framing of the Fittest: Capturing the Refugee3. Dronerasure: Airless Refugees4. Technological Erasure in the Pictorial Text Conclusion Index