ABSTRACT

Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee’s body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists. The book relies on a broad selection of texts by authors who, in one way or another, have experienced displacement, witnessed it, imagined it, or co-written about it.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Fragmentation and Existence

chapter 2|28 pages

Nomadic Writers

The Refugee as A Writer, Texts as Refugees (Samar Yazbek, Sa’dallah Wannous, Nihad Sirees, Khalid Khalifa, Mustafa Khalifa)

chapter 3|25 pages

Clandestine Bodies in Transit

Refugees’ Pipe Dreams (Laila Lalami, Mohsin Hamid, Viet Thanh Nguyen)

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion

Everywhere and Nowhere