Sakr, Rita (2018) The More-Than-Human Refugee Journey: Hassan Blasim's Short Stories. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (6). pp. 766-780. ISSN 1744-9855
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Abstract
This article addresses the representation of forced and clandestine
migration in some of Hassan Blasim’s short stories within an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that brings together theories of
biopolitics, ecocriticism, human rights discourse, heterotopia, and
the aesthetics of “nightmare realism”. Blasim’s short stories offer
new opportunities to address territoriality, life and truth at their
limits in real and imagined sites where forest and border, human
and non-human meet to suggest more-than-human futures for the
paradoxical project of reclaiming human rights. By analysing
Blasim’s unique representational techniques, through which he
mediates material and discursive violence within a combined biopolitical-ecological framework, the article also investigates the
potentials and limitations of a more ecologically attuned perspective on freedom of movement and community, based on the
claims of the environment rather than the nation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Hassan Blasim; migration; more-than-human; biopolitics; ecocriticism; nightmare realism; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
Item ID: | 14011 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17449855.2018.1551269 |
Depositing User: | Rita Sakr |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2021 16:31 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/14011 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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