Postmigration

Anna Meera Gaonkar

ISBN 10: 3837648400 / ISBN 13: 9783837648409

Published by Transcript Verlag Feb 2025, 2025

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Neuware -The concept of »postmigration« has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of »postmigration« and how it can be applied to arts and culture. While the concept has mainly gained traction in the cultural scene in Berlin, Germany, the contributions expand the field of study by attending to cultural expressions in literature, theatre, film, and art across various European societies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. By doing so, the contributions highlight this concept's potential and show how it can offer new perspectives on transformations caused by migration. 348 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmigration
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Feb 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837648400
• ISBN 13: 9783837648409
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 25D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 541 grams

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Synopsis

The concept of »postmigration« has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of »postmigration« and how it can be applied to arts and culture. While the concept has mainly gained traction in the cultural scene in Berlin, Germany, the contributions expand the field of study by attending to cultural expressions in literature, theatre, film, and art across various European societies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. By doing so, the contributions highlight this concept's potential and show how it can offer new perspectives on transformations caused by migration.

About the Authors

Anna Meera Gaonkar (MA), born in 1986, is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. She works on migration, postmigration, nationalism and coloniality as formative contexts of art and culture and has previously worked as a journalist and newspaper editor.

Astrid Sophie Ost Hansen (MA), born in 1985, is a PhD fellow at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and at the Department of Northern European Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Hans Christian Post (PhD), born in 1971, works as an independent researcher and filmmaker. His primary field of interest is cultural and urban memory.

Moritz Schramm (PhD), born in 1970, works as an associate professor at the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. He is invested in the study of migration and culture, in particular in postmigrant literature, film, and theatre.