Abida Younas – författare

Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement: Beyond Borders develops a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary refugee literature, human rights discourse, immigration policy, and international refugee law. Bringing together refugee-authored texts from the UK, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this study examines how literary form resists, negotiates, and reconfigures the epistemic demands of asylum governance.Through close readings of literary texts alongside humanitarian reports, legal instruments, and policy frameworks, the book reveals the epistemic, ethical, and affective limits of asylum regimes, situating refugee writings as a crucial site of epistemic critique. It introduces the innovative theoretical framework of critical pliability, alongside the concepts of triadic displacement and affective registration, to account for formal strategies through which refugee authors articulate experiences that exceed juridical legibility. By equipping scholars and students with theoretical tools for analyzing displacement as an ongoing affective, political, and epistemic condition, this book offers new insights into mobility, displacement, and narrative justice in the twenty-first century, establishing refugee literature as an essential field for understanding contemporary global migration and its literary representations.

Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement: Beyond Borders develops a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary refugee literature, human rights discourse, immigration policy, and international refugee law. Bringing together refugee-authored texts from the UK, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this study examines how literary form resists, negotiates, and reconfigures the epistemic demands of asylum governance.Through close readings of literary texts alongside humanitarian reports, legal instruments, and policy frameworks, the book reveals the epistemic, ethical, and affective limits of asylum regimes, situating refugee writings as a crucial site of epistemic critique. It introduces the innovative theoretical framework of critical pliability, alongside the concepts of triadic displacement and affective registration, to account for formal strategies through which refugee authors articulate experiences that exceed juridical legibility. By equipping scholars and students with theoretical tools for analyzing displacement as an ongoing affective, political, and epistemic condition, this book offers new insights into mobility, displacement, and narrative justice in the twenty-first century, establishing refugee literature as an essential field for understanding contemporary global migration and its literary representations.

Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement: Beyond Borders develops a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary refugee literature, human rights discourse, immigration policy, and international refugee law. Bringing together refugee-authored texts from the UK, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this study examines how literary form resists, negotiates, and reconfigures the epistemic demands of asylum governance.Through close readings of literary texts alongside humanitarian reports, legal instruments, and policy frameworks, the book reveals the epistemic, ethical, and affective limits of asylum regimes, situating refugee writings as a crucial site of epistemic critique. It introduces the innovative theoretical framework of critical pliability, alongside the concepts of triadic displacement and affective registration, to account for formal strategies through which refugee authors articulate experiences that exceed juridical legibility. By equipping scholars and students with theoretical tools for analyzing displacement as an ongoing affective, political, and epistemic condition, this book offers new insights into mobility, displacement, and narrative justice in the twenty-first century, establishing refugee literature as an essential field for understanding contemporary global migration and its literary representations.

This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar Jarrar all focus on the Arab world in their work; on the lives of ordinary and minority peoples; and on the revolutions of their respective nations. This volume shows how these contemporary Anglo-Arab novelists exhibit linguistic experimentation akin to Deleuze’s and Guattari’s theory of ‘deterritorialization’, but in a way that is unique to Anglo-Arab writing. The selected novelists repudiate the use of metamorphosis, which is usually an essential part of the deterritorialization of a major language. Instead, their writings enact the minor practice of linguistic deterritorialization by using metaphor and by incorporating contemporary modes of protest like popular slogans, tweets, and chants. These authors challenge theconventions of minor literature and, by adopting this mode of deterritorialization, foreground the experiences of officially silenced voices.

This book looks at eight post Arab Spring novels in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s theory of minor literature. Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Karim Alrawi, Youssef Rakha, Yasmine El Rashidi, Omar Rober Hamilton, Saleem Haddad, and Nada Awar Jarrar all focus on the Arab world in their work; on the lives of ordinary and minority peoples; and on the revolutions of their respective nations. This volume shows how these contemporary Anglo-Arab novelists exhibit linguistic experimentation akin to Deleuze’s and Guattari’s theory of ‘deterritorialization’, but in a way that is unique to Anglo-Arab writing. The selected novelists repudiate the use of metamorphosis, which is usually an essential part of the deterritorialization of a major language. Instead, their writings enact the minor practice of linguistic deterritorialization by using metaphor and by incorporating contemporary modes of protest like popular slogans, tweets, and chants. These authors challenge theconventions of minor literature and, by adopting this mode of deterritorialization, foreground the experiences of officially silenced voices.