02819nam 2200589 450 991081010290332120230629224726.090-04-46900-110.1163/9789004469006(CKB)4940000000610675(OCoLC)1251766156(nllekb)BRILL9789004469006(MiAaPQ)EBC6717721(Au-PeEL)EBL6717721(OCoLC)1260171871(EXLCZ)99494000000061067520220609d2021 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierRejection of victimhood in literature by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea /by Sean James BosmanLeiden, The Netherlands ;Boston :Brill,[2021]©20211 online resourceTextxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; ;Volume 9690-04-46899-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Comparative analysis.Transnational writers are increasingly opposed to representations of refugees, exiles, migrants, and their descendants as emblematic victims. With the rise of populist nationalisms in the USA and the UK in the eras of Trumpism, Brexit, and their aftermath, targets of nationalist groups have increasingly been represented, and thus constituted, as individual suffering victims. Certain groups embrace such representations. They use them to secure help and protection for themselves. Less scrupulous individuals may even embrace these representations to elide their own accountability and further nefarious goals. This book examines an intriguing selection of writers to show how they are attempting to recalibrate such stories to reject victimhood. It explores how just memory is deployed to ascribe agency to transnational characters.Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;96.Marginality, Social, in literatureVictims in literatureImmigrants in literatureTransnationalism in literatureAgent (Philosophy) in literatureLiterary criticism.lcgftMarginality, Social, in literature.Victims in literature.Immigrants in literature.Transnationalism in literature.Agent (Philosophy) in literature.809.8920691Bosman Sean James1684862MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810102903321Rejection of victimhood in literature4056559UNINA