[Comicsstudiessociety] CFP - The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

[Eszter Szép]

Dear all,

I know that some of you are doing amazing and inspiring work on refugee
comics, so you might be interested in this CFP. I have just found it (here:
http://blog.hawaii.edu/cbrhawaii/iaba-listserv/current-postings/) but you
might have seen it already. Apologies for crossposting.

Best,
Eszter

Deadline for Submissions, September 30, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives
deadline for submissions:
September 30, 2020

The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, currently under contract with
Routledge, presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee
narratives. In response to the oversaturation of sociological,
governmental, and journalistic narratives about refugees, this anthology
features academic essays that examine the narratives refugees tell to, for,
and about themselves. Engaging a rich variety of genres—fiction,
autobiography, prose, poetry, graphic novels, film, photography,
performance, social media—the chapters will analyze how conditions of
forced displacement and encounters with different asylum regimes shape, but
do not circumscribe, the form and content of refugee cultural productions.
Chapters will tentatively be organized around three key forms—storytelling,
testimony, (auto)ethnography—and four key themes—memory (and forgetting),
human rights (and its limitations), border-crossing (and nation-states),
and cartographies (of displacement and diaspora).

This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the range and
overarching concerns of refugee narratives. We are seeking chapters that
speak to wider issues and problematics, as opposed to an analysis of a
single work. We envision chapters that discuss multiple texts, drawing out
the themes that thread through or may resonate with different historical,
national, and social contexts. This anthology will be of interest to
researchers, teachers, students, and practitioners. As such, we encourage
contributors to also touch on pedagogical issues that surround the teaching
and reception of these narratives.

This handbook conceives of narrative broadly and encompasses a range of
critical approaches, methodologies, and genres. We are particularly
interested in chapters that address one or more of the following:

   - ●  Narratives that trouble the category or definition of “refugee,”
   including its intersections with migrancy, Indigeneity, exile, and
   citizenship
   - ●  Intersections between refugee flight and Black fugitivity
   - ●  Feminist and queer theory analyses of gender and sexuality
   - ●  Engagements with ecocriticism, posthumanism, food studies, and/or
   critical theory
   - ●  Questions of health, disability, and embodiment as they pertain to
   refugee migration
   - ●  Struggles with, and organizing against, detention, deportation,
   forced repatriation, and

   refoulement
   - ●  The role of religion in refugee narratives
   - ●  The role of memory and forgetting in refugee narratives
   - ●  Histories of empire, colonialism, postcolonialism, settler
   colonialism, and/or slavery
   - ●  Refugee migrations within the Global South, including South-South
   trajectories
   - ●  Narrative representations of boat refugees, particularly in and
   around the Mediterranean

   region
   - ●  Historical and contemporary refugee migrations from and through
   East and South Asia,

   including but not limited to Tibetian, Rohingya, Kashmiri, and Pakistani
   refugees


   - ●  Historical and contemporary refugee migrations from and through the
   Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, including but not limited to
   Syrian, Iranian, Kurdish, Palestinian, Yemeni, and Afghani refugees
   - ●  Historical and contemporary refugee migrations from and through the
   African continent, including but not limited to Sudanese, Somali, and
   Eritrean refugees
   - ●  Jewish refugees and the Holocaust
   - ●  Refugee narratives on social media and in new media, such as video
   games, virtual

   reality, podcasts, selfies, TikTok and YouTube videos
   - ●  Refugee art, including music or visual art, such as paintings,
   sculptures, and installations
   - ●  Refugee life narratives, including memoirs, oral histories, and
   ethnographies
   - ●  Refugee performances, both theatrical/dramatic and
   experimental/activist
   - ●  Refugee literature, including novels, short stories, poetry,
   graphic novels, and comics

Final chapters will be approximately 7,500 words including endnotes and
bibliography. Citations will follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

If interested, please send a short abstract (250 words) to Dr. Vinh Nguyen (
vinh.nguyen at uwaterloo.ca) and Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (
elegandhi at ucla.edu) by September 30, 2020. We look forward to reading your
submissions!
Dr. Eszter Szép
comics researcher, educator, and curator
festival director, International Comics Festival Budapest
manager, Comics Library at Budapest
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Dr. Eszter Szép
comics researcher, educator, and curator
festival director, International Comics Festival Budapest
manager, Comics Library at Budapest
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academic: eszterszep.com <http://szterszep.com>
instagram (in Hungarian): instagram.com/szep.eszter.kepregenykutato
photography: instagram.com/eszter.szep
twitter: @eszterlikesrain  <https://twitter.com/eszterlikesrain>
blog and comics: perezvonsgeometry.wordpress.com
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