Refugees and Technology in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Bayan AlAmmouri is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Jordan, Jordan.

• List of Figures Glossary Forward Acknowledgments Introduction1. Wirelessness: Mobility, Connectivity and the Cellphone in Anglophone Refugee Narratives2. Framing of the Fittest: Capturing the Refugee3. Dronerasure: Airless Refugees4. Technological Erasure in the Pictorial Text Conclusion Index

This book is both timely and essential. It demonstrates with masterly analytical skill the difficult conditions of existence into which refugees are forced within a world shaped by human rights claims, technological control, and denied freedoms. Bayan AlAmmouri offers a brilliant exposition of the role modern technology plays in curtailing and erasing rights, while illuminating the condition of refugees through anglophone literary texts, biographical memory, and cultural materials. This is a sophisticated and astute study that fills an important gap in the literature at a time when the world remains saturated with imperial and colonial violence, with overwhelming consequences—particularly for refugees.