Postcolonial Asylum - 9781846318726

Postcolonial AsylumSeeking Sanctuary Before the Law\nAuthor(s): David Farrier\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846318726, 978-1846318726\nSynopsis\nPostcolonial Asylum is concerned with asylum as a key emerging postcolonial field. Through an engagement with asylum legislation, legal theory and ethics, David Farrier argues that the exclusionary culture of host nations casts asylum seekers as contemporary incarnations of the infrahuman object of colonial sovereignty.\n\nPostcolonial Asylum includes readings of the work of asylum seeker and postcolonial authors and filmmakers, including [url] Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leila Aboulela, Stephen Frears, Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Winterbottom.\nThese readings are framed by the work of postcolonial theorists (Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, Achille Mbembe), as well as other influential thinkers (Giorgio Agam.