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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination By Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination by Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)


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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination presents the first transcultural study of womens forced migration and how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration.

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination Summary

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements by Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and the Caribbean, this volume reveals the hitherto unrecognised networks of feminist alliance being formulated across borders, while reflecting carefully on the complex politics of cross-cultural feminist solidarity. The book presents a variety of cultural case-studies that each reveal a different context in which the transcultural feminist imagination can be seen to operate from the maternal feminism of literary journalism confronting the European refugee crisis to Irans female film directors building creative collaborations with displaced Afghan women; and from artists employing sonic creativities in order to listen to women in U.K. and Australian detention, to LGBTQ+ poets and video artists articulating new forms of queer feminist community against the backdrop of the hostile environment.

This is an essential read for scholars in Womens and Gender Studies, Feminist and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literary Studies, as well as for those operating in the fields of Gender and Development Studies and Forced Migration Studies.

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination Reviews

"This book provides a much needed critical engagement with an entire field of multi-media work that has appeared in order to specifically document, represent and facilitate an understanding of the experiences of forced migration. Anna Ball's intervention shows us how to construct creative and compassionate responses and as such it is a crucial book a necessary book."

Anastasia Valassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in World Literatures, University of Manchester, UK

"This powerful book examines the forced migration of women as a gendered experience. Its original transcultural approach demonstrates the migration of women not as single transnational experiences, but as part of larger global trends about the perception of women that are influenced not only by the particular migratory path, but also by attitudes and knowledge towards other migratory places and experiences. Dr Ball compellingly weaves together the primary reading of text with larger theoretical questions about author intentionality, political currents, patterns of female engagement, the significance of maternity in establishing womens acceptability and need, and larger national and international questions about human rights crises, medical and political responsibility for refugees, and the politics of images in changing narratives about refugees from terrorists to victims. It is a 'must read' for scholars of women and gender studies, and those interested in labor and forced migration."

Rachel Sylvia Harris, Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois, USA

"This is a wonderful book! Deeply inspiring, essential reading and a major intervention in transcultural feminist approaches to forced migration. It will have resonance far beyond academia in reinvigorating feminist responses through the transcultural feminist imagination defined and practiced in the book."

Maggie O'Neill, Professor in Sociology and Criminology, University College Cork, Ireland

About Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Anna Ball is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms, Literatures, and Cultures at Nottingham Trent University, U.K. Working across literary, filmic, and artistic mediums, her research operates at the intersection of postcolonial feminist literary and cultural studies, and focusses primarily on the gendered politics of mobility, agency, and cultural expression at stake within sites of political instability in the Middle East and among its resulting global flows of forced migrants. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2018-19 in support of this work. Firmly committed to transcultural feminist community-building, she also engages in collaborative cultural work that enables those within forced migrant communities to explore their creative agency.

Table of Contents

Preface: Walking with the River

1. Moving Women, Moving Stories: Forced Migration in the Transcultural Feminist Imagination

2. An Expectant Figure: Encountering the Refugee Crisis through Literary Maternal Feminism

3. Feminisms in Conflict: Decolonising Afghan Womens Displacement through the Iranian Cinematic Gaze

4. Sounding Out Dissent: Learning to Listen to Women in Detention through Sonic Creativities

5. No Straightforward Journey: Traversing Queer Feminist Territories through a Poetics of Crossing

Conclusion: Creative Mobilisations

Additional information

NPB9780367343811
9780367343811
0367343819
Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements by Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-22
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