Postcolonial Asylum

Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law

AvDavid Farrier

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Del 9 i serien Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines

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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 other influential thinkers (Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Emmanuel Levinas, Étienne Balibar, Zygmunt Bauman), in order to institute what Spivak calls a ‘step beyond’ postcolonial studies; one that carries with it the insights and limitations of the discipline as it looks to new ways for postcolonial studies to engage with the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781846318726

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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’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.4 (2008)‘“The journey is the film is the journey”: Michael Winterbottom’s In This World’, Research in Drama Education 13.2 (2008)‘Unwritable dwellings/unsettled texts: Robert Louis Stevenson’s In the South Seas and the Vailima House’, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1 (2006)‘Gesturing towards the local: intimate histories in Anil’s Ghost’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41.1 (2005)‘Charting the “Amnesiac Atlantic”: chiastic cartography and Caribbean epic in Derek Walcott’s Omeros’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (2003)

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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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AcknowledgementsNote to the ReaderList of FiguresIntroduction: Before the LawA scandal for postcolonial studiesThe camp dispositifOverview1. Nothing Outside the LawThe colonization of the in-betweenKenomatic fetishThe heritage of colonial infrahumanityNecropolitics and national narcissism2. Horizons of PerceptionIn/visible relationsGorgoneionHorizon of perception 1: the camp in the cityHorizon of perception 2: the camp and the dispersal systemHorizon of perception 3: the camp and asylum destitution3. Be/held: Ban and IterationBe/heldBogus womenRe/producing 'home'Continua4. Allow Me My DestitutionParasitic reading and reading parasitesDead lettersKalumnia and formula'Let me become the echo of a name to you'Preference and assumption5. Terms of HospitalityThe receding refugeeAsylos/AsylaoThe transgressive stepThe necessary other6. The Politics of ProximityResponse-abilityMetaxisThe journey is the film is the journeyThe limits of dignityAfterwordBibliographyIndex