Contemporary Asylum Narratives

1. Introduction: Exposure
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Part I. Hospitable Representations

2. Narrator as Host in Graham Swift’s The Light of Day
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3. ‘Communicable Empathy’: Reading Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
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Part II. Refugees on Film

4. Screening Asylum: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort
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5. States of Belonging: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men
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Part III. Staging Asylum

6. Authenticating Asylum: Kay Adshead’s The Bogus Woman
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7. Europe, History and Myth in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Credible Witness
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Part IV. Asylum in a Global Era

8. Globalization: Crisis and Celebration in Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand
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9. Cosmopolitan Representation: Kate Clanchy’s Antigona and Me
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10. Conclusion: An Uncertain Belonging
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Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Migration, Film History, Fiction, Cultural Studies