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Rejection of Victimhood in Literature

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Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and t...
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  • 26 August 2021
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Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.
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Price: $132.00
Pages: 206
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
Publication Date: 26 August 2021
ISBN: 9789004468993
Format: Hardcover
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Sean James Bosman is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Rhodes in 2020. His research concentrates on articulations of memory in transnational literature.