Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies

Chowra Makaremi's work discussing the demands placed on asylum seekers was not only politically poignant and timely, but a key contribution in positioning the work in a larger discourse of methods, ethics, and memory studies. All of these forms of knowledge (autobiography, visual art, poetry, f...

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Published in:Biography 2016, Vol.39 (4), p.832-835
Main Author: Jamal, Sarah
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthologies
Biographies
Ethics
Fiction
Focus
Memory
Migration
Poetry
REVIEWS
Studies
Writing
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Summary:Chowra Makaremi's work discussing the demands placed on asylum seekers was not only politically poignant and timely, but a key contribution in positioning the work in a larger discourse of methods, ethics, and memory studies. All of these forms of knowledge (autobiography, visual art, poetry, fiction, interviews, etc.) deliver a rich and diverse base from where the depth and the importance of the anthology's foci on migration and memory participate both in the migration of memory and the memories of migration.
ISSN:0162-4962
1529-1456
DOI:10.1353/bio.2016.0086