Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement
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- ISBN 9781041213741
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Abida Younas is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, Associate Fellow at the University of Essex, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary postcolonial conditions in South Asia and the Middle East and their impact on literature. She has published widely in leading international peer-reviewed journals and delivered invited talks at conferences across Pakistan, the UK, Europe, and the USA.
