Helga Ramsey-Kurz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helga Ramsey-Kurz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helga |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramsey-Kurz |
| SIGNATURE | RAMSEY-KURZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7710-9635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This story is not about immigrants but about refugees
A Difficult Passage to Navigate
This article draws on the results of a life writing initiative, ARENA (Archive of Refugee Encounter Narratives), developed at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It involves students of English collaborating with refugees over periods of three months to write down the latter’s stories. Like other storytelling ventures spawned by the perceived European refugee crisis of 2015, ARENA aims to enable a better understanding of the situation of refu…
From Treasure To Trash Island Colonialist Fantasies Of Island Wealth Reworked In Satin Island By Tom Mccarthy And Crazy Rich Asians By Kevin Kwan
Neoliberal practices of speculation and fabulation are increasingly compromising established notions of truth on the one hand and fiction on the other. As presaged by Fredric Jameson at the end of last century when he defined globalization as the demoralizing and depressing “‘moment of truth’ of postmodernism,” contemporary writers are currently facing a foreclosure upon “imaginable alternatives” to neoliberal capitalism. Fiction, one might argue…
Precarity in Transit
This article offers a reading of Helon Habila's latest novel Travellers, which was inspired by the onset of the so-called European refugee crisis in 2013. The essay pays special attention to the embodied act of narration and its exploitation by Habila as a mode of cultivating a compassionate understanding of forcibly displaced persons and their often precarious lives in prolonged transit. The analysis follows Butler's idea of narrative as a mode,…
Shades of Denial
This essay proposes a new way of thinking about asylum and refugees by bringing the contemporary discourse of forced displacement into conversation with that of the transnational mobility of today’s financial elites. It does so with respect to the Australian context and the affective registers of xenophobia and antiracism routinely exploited in public debates not only on boat people and asylum, but also on immigration to Australia at large. Thus,…
Rising above the Bait
It seems that no discussion of The Taming of the Shrew can do without addressing, explicitly or implicitly, the vexing issue of Katherine Minola's obedience speech. This paper cannot do so either
Does Saleem Really Miss the Spittoon
Rising above the Bait
It seems that no discussion of The Taming of the Shrew can do without addressing, explicitly or implicitly, the vexing issue of Katherine Minola's obedience speech. This paper cannot do so either
Does Saleem Really Miss the Spittoon
Rising above the Bait
It seems that no discussion of The Taming of the Shrew can do without addressing, explicitly or implicitly, the vexing issue of Katherine Minola's obedience speech. This paper cannot do so either
Shades of Denial
This essay proposes a new way of thinking about asylum and refugees by bringing the contemporary discourse of forced displacement into conversation with that of the transnational mobility of today’s financial elites. It does so with respect to the Australian context and the affective registers of xenophobia and antiracism routinely exploited in public debates not only on boat people and asylum, but also on immigration to Australia at large. Thus,…
Precarity in Transit
This article offers a reading of Helon Habila's latest novel Travellers, which was inspired by the onset of the so-called European refugee crisis in 2013. The essay pays special attention to the embodied act of narration and its exploitation by Habila as a mode of cultivating a compassionate understanding of forcibly displaced persons and their often precarious lives in prolonged transit. The analysis follows Butler's idea of narrative as a mode,…
A Difficult Passage to Navigate
This article draws on the results of a life writing initiative, ARENA (Archive of Refugee Encounter Narratives), developed at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It involves students of English collaborating with refugees over periods of three months to write down the latter’s stories. Like other storytelling ventures spawned by the perceived European refugee crisis of 2015, ARENA aims to enable a better understanding of the situation of refu…
From Treasure To Trash Island Colonialist Fantasies Of Island Wealth Reworked In Satin Island By Tom Mccarthy And Crazy Rich Asians By Kevin Kwan
Neoliberal practices of speculation and fabulation are increasingly compromising established notions of truth on the one hand and fiction on the other. As presaged by Fredric Jameson at the end of last century when he defined globalization as the demoralizing and depressing “‘moment of truth’ of postmodernism,” contemporary writers are currently facing a foreclosure upon “imaginable alternatives” to neoliberal capitalism. Fiction, one might argue…
This story is not about immigrants but about refugees
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works)