Postcolonial Asylum : Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law Paperback / softback
by David (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (United Kingd Farrier
Part of the Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2013
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- ISBN:9781846318726
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846318726
