Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Introduction Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote Part I: Depicting Wars, Depicting Refugees 1. Documentary, Memory and the Iraq Syndrome Jeffrey Geiger 2. Strategies of Representation in No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo Melanie Friend 3. Refugees, Gender and Secularism in South Asian Literature and Cinema Kavita Daiya Part II: Language, Wars and Migrants 4. The Threat and Promise of the Shibboleth: Linguistic Representation in Language Analysis in the Determination of Origin (LADO) of Asylum Seekers Tim McNamara 5. Constructing Consumerist Refugees Online Daniel Rellstab Part III: Performing Refugeehood 6. Questions of Performances In Place of War James Thompson 7. Fostering Connectedness Through Narrative Involvement: Intercultural Community Theatre in Contexts of Migration and Refugeehood Daniele Klapproth 8. Dramatizing the Congo: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid Workers and Gender Christiane Schlote Part IV: Tales of War and Displacement 9. Reconfiguring Place and Identity in Roma Tearne's Narratives of War and Refugeehood Giovanna Buonanno 10. Redefining Narrating for Research on Displacement in Violence Colette Daiute and Patricia Botero Gomez 11. At Home with the Unhomely: Vietnamese and Iraqi Narratives of 'Resettlement' Brenda Boyle 12. Pens and Swords: Exploring the Role of Poetry and Creative Writing in Post-Conflict and Displacement Settings Franz Andres Morrissey