Unmaking of a Narrative Landscape: Life Writing with Refugees
| dc.contributor.author | Ezer, Ozlem | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-15T19:27:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-15T19:27:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My paper presents the process of a cross-genre life writing inspired by Marlene Kadar's work. I argue that life writing serves best for my book on Syrian women refugee narratives collected in North America, Europe, and Turkey, as a dynamic and productive literary form because it provides me the textual freedom for experimenting with interviewer's self-inscription and representation along with the narrators' without ascribing a hierarchical role or structure. I have used the term "oral history" to describe my work in response to meet the standards of mainstream and discipline-oriented academia and grant applications; however, I also refer to it as "documentary literary prose" to which life writing serves as an umbrella term. Among the refugee representations I aim to challenge through my writing are of victimized, vulnerable, subordinate Syrian women. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33694 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Syrian refugee | en_US |
| dc.subject | women | en_US |
| dc.subject | life writing | en_US |
| dc.title | Unmaking of a Narrative Landscape: Life Writing with Refugees | en_US |
| dc.type | Abstract | en_US |