Survival Media

Suvendrini Perera is Professor of Cultural Analysis at Curtin University, Australia. Her previous books include Reaches of Empire: The English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens and Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies. Her most recent publication is the coedited volume At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror (with Sherene Razack).

• AbbreviationsSeries Editor's ForewordIn Lieu of...Preface: The Location of the AftermathIntroduction: Lethal Imaginaries of Nationalism: A Brief History in Checkpoints 1. Lines of Flight: Survival Media2. Missing In Action: By All Media Necessary3. White Shores of Longing: Castaway Stories and Nation Dramas 4. Accounting For Disposable Lives: Visibility, Atrocity and International Justice 5. Territory of Ashes: A Disjointed UnfoldingConclusion: 'From what has happened to what will come'AfterwordBibliography

"Words of poets ... sounds, images draw lines of flight ... opening new angles on diaspora studies as well as on the politics of borders and mobility." - Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy "A remarkable work of scholarship ... beautifully written; makes a highly original and ethical argument that deserves the widest dissemination." - Sankaran Krishna, University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA "With poetic prose and keen analysis, the book shows us that the refugee and migrant are not only mobile subjects; tracing their fraught passage also complicates, disorients and troubles the question of the subject itself ... [T]he subject struggles for shore, then slips from view, only to remerge; each time constituted by and struggling with trajectories of power and knowledge that are both new and not." - Vasuki Nesiah, New York University, USA