Uncommon Alliances
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3588-8 (ISBN)
Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe takes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion. Bringing into conversation postcolonial and post-communist migration narratives from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, it aims to capture the emergent shift from national to postnational European space.
Through its examination of cultural texts, including works by Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila Lalami, Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugrešić and others, this book traces EU neocolonial practices in relation to European history, borders and guiding ideals of community, which exclude various 'others' from their symbolic imaginary. The book deliberately moves the discussion away from social-scientific approaches to humanities and offers a fresh intellectual framework for understanding multicultural identity in Europe.
Key Features
Goes beyond traditional frameworks of cultural analysis (national, ethnic, or language-based) by focusing on narratives which take the European Union as a point of referenceShifts focus from narratives depicting interactions between different cultures to those imagining communities of solidarity based on common economic or historical marginalisation in the European UnionRevises postcolonial theory by arguing that the European Union exemplifies a new, ‘consensual’ regime of colonial governance Offers poststructuralist readings of migrant narratives to go beyond the more common, multicultural approaches to such narrativesDevelops original perspectives on individual writers (Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila Lalami, Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugrešić, and others)Helps reorient European Union studies, dominated by social sciences, to the humanities side
Nataša Kovačević is Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe’s Borderline Civilization (Routledge, 2008).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Europe, the Impossible Object of Desire
Non-Imperial Empire
Mapping (Un)Common European Belonging
CH 1: Performing the State: Artistic Re-Presentations of European Community
Spectres of Entropa: European Union’s Crisis of Self-Representation
‘Professional Human Smugglers’: Critique of Neoliberal Mobility
State in Time: Neue Slowenische Kunst’s Community without Community
Towards a New Politics of Community
CH 2: Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe
Multitudes in Waiting: Passage to Europe in Welcome to Paradise and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Terraferma and Solidarity in a State of Exception
Strange Encounters and Multicultural Love in Eternity and A Day
CH 3: Colonial Spectres in Europe’s Historiography
Colonial Aphasia in The Seine Was Red
Haunted European Homes in Soul Tourists
Melancholy Nomadism in Travelling with Djinns
CH 4: Postcolonial and Postcommunist Contact Zones in a United Europe
Crimes of Prejudice: Unavowable Communities in A Shadow of Myself
Storming the EU Fortress: Communities of Disagreement in Nobody’s Home and The Ministry of Pain
CH 5: Epilogue: Memories of Yugoslavia and Europe to Come
Bibliography
Notes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 549 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-3588-2 / 1474435882 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-3588-8 / 9781474435888 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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