NARRATIVES OF

DISPLACEMENT
edited by Olena Lytovka

IRF Press
Warsaw 2016
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Narratives of Displacement
Edited by Olena Lytovka

This publication is peer reviewed.

ISBN: 978-83-943632-2-2

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 Contents
Introduction 7
Olena Lytovka

CHAPTER 1
Rethinking Home Through Artistic Practices 13
Emma Duester

CHAPTER 2
Victimizing Representations: Human Rights Discourse 33
and Cultural Complexes
Martyna Chrzescijanska

CHAPTER 3
Past and Present Gender Dilemma and 49
Its Role in Shaping the Future of South
Asian Women in a Southern County
of the United Kingdom an Ethnographic Study
Mahuya Kanjilal

CHAPTER 4
Displaced History, Displaced Body and Displaced 73
Nation: A Map to the Door of No Return:
Notes to Belonging (2001) by Dionne Brand
Marta Frtczak

CHAPTER 5
Spaces of Exclusion in the Literature of Migration: 93
Herta Mller and Aglaja Veteranyi
Dana Bizuleanu-Conkan
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CHAPTER 6
Displaced Fatherhood: the Liminal Identity 115
of the Immigrant in Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and
James D. Houstons Farewell to Manzanar
Magorzata Jarmoowicz

CHAPTER 7
Forced Migration and Voluntary Journey: Exploring 137
the Contentious Nature of Migration and Identity of
Indentured Labourers and Middle-class Cosmopolitans
in Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke
Barnali Sarkar

CHAPTER 8
Uncanny in Primetime: Penny Dreadful 159
Sinem apar