Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood Espinoza Garrido, Lea. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Gebauer, Carolin. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Wewior, Julia. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XV, 272 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource. This volume offers new perspectives on the ways in which migrants use storytelling practices and kinship formations in order to navigate and modify spaces of sovereignty, and thus to re-write narratives portraying them as helpless and passive victims. It provides one of the first investigations that assembles multidisciplinary contributions to look beyond individual acts of migrant agency and toward the entanglements of individual and collective agency, formations of kinship structures, and feelings, expressions, and representations of community and (multiple) belonging(s). The contributions explore the interplay between agency, kinship, and migration from various fields, including sociology, psychology, philosophy, border studies, gender and queer studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, film and media studies, and literary and cultural studies – with a special focus on interdisciplinary narrative theory. They address real and imagined assertions of migrant agency and kinship formations; draw on empirical research, interviews, and accounts of lived experiences; and analyze the role of narrative, media, and technologies in artistic, literary, and cinematic representations of migrant agency and kinship. Lea Espinoza Garrido is a researcher and lecturer in the field of American Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she is also co-chair of the “Narrative Research Group” of the Center for Narrative Research. Carolin Gebauer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in British Literature and Culture at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and a board member of Wuppertal’s Center for Narrative Research. Julia Wewior is a researcher and lecturer in the field of American Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she is a board member of the Center for Narrative Research. Chapter 1. Narrative Perspectives on Migrant Agency and Kinship: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Reconsidering Identity Formation Processes in Fictions of Migration: Narrative Subjectivity in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine -- Chapter 3. Not from Here, Not from There: A First-Person Perspective on Chilean Exile in Cinema -- Chapter 4. An Ocean of Silence: Vulnerability in Comics about Migration -- Chapter 5. Migration and Intersectionality in El verbo J: A Conversation with Claudia Hernández -- Chapter 6. Affiliative Kinship and Agency in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street -- Chapter 7. Migrant Women’s Narratives of Good Wifeliness: An Australian Case Study of Migrant Agency -- Chapter 8. Representations of Political Kinship: Connecting through Political Affinities in Contemporary Migration Literature -- Chapter 9. Narrating Migrant Enterprise and Experience in the Australian Cultural and Creative Industries -- Chapter 10. Of Wild, Tangled, and Colorful Gardens: Narrating the More-than-Human Community in Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree -- Chapter 11. “It’s my habit not to have fear”: An Interview with Bibi Jamila Sadat. edited by Lea Espinoza Garrido, Carolin Gebauer, Julia Wewior. Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration Social aspects Narration (Rhetoric) Communication Human Migration Sociology of Migration Narratology Media and Communication JV6001-9480 HB1951-2577 9783031607547 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60754-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60754-7 240823 20251030112907.0 978-3-031-60754-7