Postcolonial Asylum

David Farrier is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.Unsettled Narratives: the Pacific writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London. Routledge, 2007.‘Terms of hospitality: Adbulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43.3 (2008)‘“The other is the neighbour”: the limits of dignity in Caryl Philips’s A Distant Shore’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.4 (2008)‘“The journey is the film is the journey”: Michael Winterbottom’s In This World’, Research in Drama Education 13.2 (2008)‘Unwritable dwellings/unsettled texts: Robert Louis Stevenson’s In the South Seas and the Vailima House’, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1 (2006)‘Gesturing towards the local: intimate histories in Anil’s Ghost’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41.1 (2005)‘Charting the “Amnesiac Atlantic”: chiastic cartography and Caribbean epic in Derek Walcott’s Omeros’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (2003)

• AcknowledgementsNote to the ReaderList of FiguresIntroduction: Before the LawA scandal for postcolonial studiesThe camp dispositifOverview1. Nothing Outside the LawThe colonization of the in-betweenKenomatic fetishThe heritage of colonial infrahumanityNecropolitics and national narcissism2. Horizons of PerceptionIn/visible relationsGorgoneionHorizon of perception 1: the camp in the cityHorizon of perception 2: the camp and the dispersal systemHorizon of perception 3: the camp and asylum destitution3. Be/held: Ban and IterationBe/heldBogus womenRe/producing 'home'Continua4. Allow Me My DestitutionParasitic reading and reading parasitesDead lettersKalumnia and formula'Let me become the echo of a name to you'Preference and assumption5. Terms of HospitalityThe receding refugeeAsylos/AsylaoThe transgressive stepThe necessary other6. The Politics of ProximityResponse-abilityMetaxisThe journey is the film is the journeyThe limits of dignityAfterwordBibliographyIndex

As the first scholarly monograph to examine asylum in relation to postcolonial studies, David Farrier’s Postcolonial Asylum makes a theoretically rich contribution to the field.