Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Roger Bromley is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and, formerly, Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (2000) and a number of other books and scholarly articles.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope.- 3. Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees.- 4. Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey.- 5. Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses.- 6. Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the West Bank of Palestine.