Uncommon Alliances : Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe /

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Examines European Union's neocolonial sovereignty in cultural narratives of migration. 'Uncommon Alliances' takes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kovačević, Nataša, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Immigrants > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Immigrants.
European Union countries > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
European Union countries > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
European Union countries > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Pays de l'Union européenne > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Pays de l'Union européenne > Émigration et immigration > Aspect politique.
Pays de l'Union européenne > Émigration et immigration > Aspect économique.
European Union countries.
Europe.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Europe, the Impossible Object of Desire ; Non-Imperial Empire ; Mapping (Un)Common European Belonging
  • 1. Performing the State: Artistic Re-Presentations of European Community: Spectres of Entropa: European Union's Crisis of Self-Representation ; 'Professional Human Smugglers': Critique of Neo-liberal Mobility ; State in Time: Neue Slowenische Kunst's Community without Community ; Towards a New Politics of Community
  • 2. Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe:- Multitudes in Waiting: Passage to Europe in Welcome to Paradise and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits ; Terraferma and Solidarity in a State of Exception ; Strange Encounters and Multicultural Love in Eternity and A Day
  • 3. Colonial Spectres in Europe's Historiography: Colonial Aphasia in The Seine Was Red ; Haunted European Homes in Soul Tourists ; Melancholy Nomadism in Travelling with Djinns
  • 4. Postcolonial and Postcommunist Contact Zones in a United Europe: Crimes of Prejudice: Unavowable Communities in A Shadow of Myself ; Storming the EU Fortress: Communities of Disagreement in Nobody's Home and The Ministry of Pain
  • 5. Epilogue: Memories of Yugoslavia and Europe to Come.

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