E58 - The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

UNESCO RIELA: The sounds of integration

TW from around 41:30: rape and trauma In this episode we look at the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, which was published in February 2023. It is a conversation between one of the editors (Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi) and four chapter authors (Himadri Chatterjee, Agnes Woolley, Sydney Van To and Asha Varadharajan). Topics that get covered are the relationship between narrative and literature, between fiction and non-fiction, questions around witnessing and forgetting, traumatic repetition, the need to categorise, questions of audience, of purpose, individual versus communal trauma and contradiction within the narratives. Sociopolitical, historical, literary and legal perspectives all get covered in this fascinating discussion. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration