Configurations of Migration: Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Configurations of Migration

Knowledges – Imaginaries – Media

Edited by: Jennifer Leetsch , Frederike Middelhoff and Miriam Wallraven
Funded by: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität

Volume 1 in the series Transnational Approaches to Culture

Overview

About this book

Open Access

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.

Author information

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

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary and cultural studies, theatre studies, visual arts, migration, refugee and exile studies
Pages
- Main content: 290
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Globalization; literary and cultural studies; diaspora; visual arts

eBook

Planned Publication: November 13, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783810

Hardcover

Planned Publication: November 13, 2023
ISBN: 9783110783797