Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination

Transcultural Movements
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-11096-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and the Caribbean, this volume reveals the hitherto unrecognised networks of feminist alliance being formulated across borders, while reflecting carefully on the complex politics of cross-cultural feminist solidarity. The book presents a variety of cultural case-studies that each reveal a different context in which the transcultural feminist imagination can be seen to operate – from the ‘maternal feminism’ of literary journalism confronting the European ‘refugee crisis’ to Iran’s female film directors building creative collaborations with displaced Afghan women; and from artists employing sonic creativities in order to listen to women in U.K. and Australian detention, to LGBTQ+ poets and video artists articulating new forms of queer feminist community against the backdrop of the hostile environment.

This is an essential read for scholars in Women’s and Gender Studies, Feminist and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literary Studies, as well as for those operating in the fields of Gender and Development Studies and Forced Migration Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ball, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Walking with the River

1. Moving Women, Moving Stories: Forced Migration in the Transcultural Feminist Imagination

2. An Expectant Figure: Encountering the ‘Refugee Crisis’ through Literary Maternal Feminism

3. Feminisms in Conflict: Decolonising Afghan Women’s Displacement through the Iranian Cinematic Gaze

4. Sounding Out Dissent: Learning to Listen to Women in Detention through Sonic Creativities

5. No Straightforward Journey: Traversing Queer Feminist Territories through a Poetics of Crossing

Conclusion: Creative Mobilisations

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Ball is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures, and Cultures at Nottingham Trent University, U.K. Working across literary, filmic, and artistic mediums, her research operates at the intersection of postcolonial feminist literary and cultural studies, and focusses primarily on the gendered politics of mobility, agency, and cultural expression at stake within sites of political instability in the Middle East and among its resulting global flows of forced migrants. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2018-19 in support of this work. Firmly committed to transcultural feminist community-building, she also engages in collaborative cultural work that enables those within forced migrant communities to explore their creative agency.