Overview

In a global context in which phenomena of migration play an ever more important role, the ways individual and collective experiences of migration are covered in the media, represented in culture, and interpreted are coming under increasing scrutiny. This book explores the complex relationship between creative engagements with migration on the one hand, and forms of knowledge about migration on the other, inquiring into the ways aesthetic practices are intertwined with knowledge structures. The book responds to three pressing research questions. First, it analyses how fictional texts, plays, images, films, and autobiographical accounts mediate forms of knowledge about migration. Second, it identifies the ways in which specific media approaches and aesthetic practices influence people’s ideas about and awareness of migratory experiences in a globalized world. Finally, it delineates how historical perspectives help us compare epistemological approaches to migration in the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries, and how these approaches affect the way critics and the public responded to and thought about different forms of (forced) migration. Bringing together renowned scholars working across disciplines, it investigates the possibilities and limitations that different media present when it comes to reflecting on, communicating, and imagining experiences of migration, and how these representations in turn create ways of knowing and understanding migration.

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9783110783797

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""Es bereichert das Feld der Migrationsstudien, indem es eine Vielzahl von Schriftsteller_innen, Wissenschaftler_innen und Künstler_innen aus aller Welt zu Wort kommen lässt."" Mortada Haidar in: KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture, 5/2024

"""Es bereichert das Feld der Migrationsstudien, indem es eine Vielzahl von Schriftsteller_innen, Wissenschaftler_innen und K�nstler_innen aus aller Welt zu Wort kommen l�sst."" Mortada Haidar in: KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture, 5/2024"

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J. Leetsch, U of Bonn, Germany; F. Middelhoff, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; M. Wallraven, U of Würzburg, Germany.

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