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Narrating Refugee Lives: Political Asylum In 21st Century France, Susmitha Udayan
Narrating Refugee Lives: Political Asylum In 21st Century France, Susmitha Udayan
Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs
This dissertation examines representations of refugees in legal and aesthetic texts. Using the notion of chronotope as a conceptual framework, it studies the use of time and space in various refugee narratives to argue that aesthetic texts about refugees foreground the concept of spatiality to materialize and historicize the refugee condition. These texts, I contend, provide a necessary counternarrative to the depersonalized, dehistoricized representations of refugees encountered in legal texts and media discourses. Comparative analysis of legal and literary texts shows that adventure-time, which dominates legal asylum narratives, contributes to produce coherent, linear, singularized legal asylum stories. Such a narration …
Chronotopes Of Flight From The Red Army In East And West German Feature Film (1950–1970), Jamie Zelechowski
Chronotopes Of Flight From The Red Army In East And West German Feature Film (1950–1970), Jamie Zelechowski
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article investigates the representation of flight from the Red Army (1944/45) in East and West German feature film prior to 1970. Even while refugee figures may abound, the representation of flight appears infrequently in feature film during this period. In order to understand why this is the case as well as how and why flight is actually depicted when it is, I turn to Wolfgang Schleif’s Preis der Nationen/Das Mädchen Marion (Prize of the Nations/The Girl Marion, FRG; 1956) and Martin Eckermann’s television film Wege übers Land (Ways Across the Land, GDR; 1968) and their representations of refugee treks—which, …