Discourses of Memory and Refugees

This book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers inrelation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series ofstudies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together thestudies shed light on this overlooked area of research. The studies or 'facets'presented in the monograph cover a range of contexts and discursive genres: ajoint BBC/refugee-authored television documentary, refugees' oral histories,creative life writing by asylum seekers, parliamentarians' debates, a reworking ofcanonical texts and sites in a protest campaign, and non-fiction testimonies andfictional works by later generations of refugee background. The monographintroduces 'facet methodology' to memory studies, arguing that this approachcould encourage interdisciplinary research in the field.