Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe

ISBN-13: 9781474435888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Natasa Kovacevic

Opis

Uncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe' takes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; i. Europe, the Impossible Object of Desire; ii. Non-Imperial Empire; iii. Mapping (Un)Common European Belonging; 1. Performing the State: Artistic Re-Presentations of European Community; i. Spectres of Entropa: European Union’s Crisis of Self-Representation; ii. ‘Professional Human Smugglers’: Critique of Neoliberal Mobility; iii. State in Time: Neue Slowenische Kunst’s Community without Community; iv. Towards a New Politics of Community; 2. Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe; i. Multitudes in Waiting: Passage to Europe in Welcome to Paradise and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits; ii. Terraferma and Solidarity in a State of Exception; iii. Strange Encounters and Multicultural Love in Eternity and A Day; 3. Colonial Spectres in Europe’s Historiography; i. Colonial Aphasia in The Seine Was Red; ii. Haunted European Homes in Soul Tourists; iii. Melancholy Nomadism in Travelling with Djinns; 4. Postcolonial and Postcommunist Contact Zones in a United Europe; i. Crimes of Prejudice: Unavowable Communities in A Shadow of Myself; ii. 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; Bibliography; Notes.