Sloane, Peter (2025) From Rupture to Refuge The Coordinates of Contemporary Refugee Narratives. Discussion Paper. Liverpool University Press.
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From Rupture to Refuge is a wide-ranging study of both contemporary refugee fiction and memoir. From international best-selling novels such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Christi Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo, to memoirs by Zoya Phan and Clemantine Wamariya, it follows refugees as they narrate their experiences and memories of homeland, war, escape, camp, and finally finding refuge. Tracing literary connections between this wide body of 21st Century writing, the book provides an overview of a genre of writing and a detailed textual analyses of thematic and poetic intersections. It also introduces the concept of ‘narrative displacement’, uncovering the ways in which refugees are discursively displaced from their own tales as well as being displaced spatially. Sloane argues that in writing and recording, refugees replace themselves at the centre of their own life stories.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | In compliance with the University of Liverpool's Open Access Book Policies, the accepted manuscript of this text is not available from this repository. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Khaled Hosseini ; Christi Lefteri ; Zoya Phan ; Clemantine Wamariya ; refugees ; displacement. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PK Indo-Iranian P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| Divisions: | School of Humanities & Social Sciences > English Literature > English Literature |
| Depositing User: | Peter Sloane |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2025 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2025 08:47 |
| URI: | http://bear.buckingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/671 |
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