Agnes Woolley
Biographic Data
| ID | 642396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnes Woolley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnes |
| FAMILY NAME | Woolley |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0796-8199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diasporic Syrian women writers: Stories of resilience and survival
In 2020, Ghada Alatrash and Najat Abed Alsamad noted that, ‘Historically Syrians have written and spoken about exile in their literature, long before the Syrian war began in March of 2011 (p. 4). This paper brings together two Syrian women writers who straddle this epochal moment in Syrian history: Mohja Kahf and Ibtisam Tracy. It seeks to bridge the gap between these writers and to chart new trends in diasporic writing by Syrian women. It argues…
Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space in Recent British Film
Through an analysis of recent film and moving image work documenting the Hostile Environment, this essay challenges the distinction often drawn between postcolonial migrants and refugees, arguing that Britain's punitive immigration and asylum policy broadens what it means to be made stateless. With particular reference to the Windrush docudrama Sitting in Limbo (2020) and Remi Weekes' asylum horror His House (2020), this essay explores how a seri…
Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities
Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies,…
Creative engagement with migration
This article introduces a special issue on arts-based engagement with migration, comprising articles, reflections, poems and images. The introductory article starts by exploring the ethical, political and empirical reasons for the increased use of arts-based methods in humanities and social sciences research in general, and in migration studies in particular. Next, it evaluates participatory methods, co-production and co-authorship as increasingl…
Six authors in search of justice: Engaging with political transitions
As well as describing the insistence of postcolonialism as a disciplinary field and political project in the twenty-first century, Robert Young’s (2012) notion of “postcolonial remains” traces the
Narrating the “Asylum Story: Between Literary and Legal Storytelling
In 2014 the United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported that the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had exceeded 50 million for the first time since the Second World War. The entanglement of literary and legal technologies in the asylum decision-making process as it operates today in legal, advocacy and creative circles excludes asylum seekers from incorporation as rights-bearing individuals if they do not conform to a particu…
Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
Contemporary Asylum Narratives explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in contemporary British literature, film and theatre. Taking the turn of this century as a starting point, when legislation around detention, deportation and dispersal began to take effect, it identifies an emerging cultural engagement with asylum in twenty-first century Britain. Through a focus on both established authors and playwrights - Graham Swift, Caryl …
Something blurred in her: Imagining hospitality in Graham Swift'sThe Light of Day
This article explores the complex position of Kristina, a refugee, in Graham Swift's 2003 novel The Light of Day. She has been overlooked in criticism of the novel, which has tended to focus on the narrator George. I argue that Kristina, in her role as both proximal and distant to the text, allows us to ask pressing questions about the nature of hospitality in relation to the contingent and unstable position of asylum seekers and refugees within …
Narrating the “Asylum Story: Between Literary and Legal Storytelling
In 2014 the United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported that the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had exceeded 50 million for the first time since the Second World War. The entanglement of literary and legal technologies in the asylum decision-making process as it operates today in legal, advocacy and creative circles excludes asylum seekers from incorporation as rights-bearing individuals if they do not conform to a particu…
Creative engagement with migration
This article introduces a special issue on arts-based engagement with migration, comprising articles, reflections, poems and images. The introductory article starts by exploring the ethical, political and empirical reasons for the increased use of arts-based methods in humanities and social sciences research in general, and in migration studies in particular. Next, it evaluates participatory methods, co-production and co-authorship as increasingl…
Diasporic Syrian women writers: Stories of resilience and survival
In 2020, Ghada Alatrash and Najat Abed Alsamad noted that, ‘Historically Syrians have written and spoken about exile in their literature, long before the Syrian war began in March of 2011 (p. 4). This paper brings together two Syrian women writers who straddle this epochal moment in Syrian history: Mohja Kahf and Ibtisam Tracy. It seeks to bridge the gap between these writers and to chart new trends in diasporic writing by Syrian women. It argues…
Something blurred in her: Imagining hospitality in Graham Swift'sThe Light of Day
This article explores the complex position of Kristina, a refugee, in Graham Swift's 2003 novel The Light of Day. She has been overlooked in criticism of the novel, which has tended to focus on the narrator George. I argue that Kristina, in her role as both proximal and distant to the text, allows us to ask pressing questions about the nature of hospitality in relation to the contingent and unstable position of asylum seekers and refugees within …
Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
Contemporary Asylum Narratives explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in contemporary British literature, film and theatre. Taking the turn of this century as a starting point, when legislation around detention, deportation and dispersal began to take effect, it identifies an emerging cultural engagement with asylum in twenty-first century Britain. Through a focus on both established authors and playwrights - Graham Swift, Caryl …
Narrating the “Asylum Story: Between Literary and Legal Storytelling
In 2014 the United Nations High Commission for Refugees reported that the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had exceeded 50 million for the first time since the Second World War. The entanglement of literary and legal technologies in the asylum decision-making process as it operates today in legal, advocacy and creative circles excludes asylum seekers from incorporation as rights-bearing individuals if they do not conform to a particu…
Six authors in search of justice: Engaging with political transitions
As well as describing the insistence of postcolonialism as a disciplinary field and political project in the twenty-first century, Robert Young’s (2012) notion of “postcolonial remains” traces the
Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities
Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies,…
Creative engagement with migration
This article introduces a special issue on arts-based engagement with migration, comprising articles, reflections, poems and images. The introductory article starts by exploring the ethical, political and empirical reasons for the increased use of arts-based methods in humanities and social sciences research in general, and in migration studies in particular. Next, it evaluates participatory methods, co-production and co-authorship as increasingl…
Diasporic Syrian women writers: Stories of resilience and survival
In 2020, Ghada Alatrash and Najat Abed Alsamad noted that, ‘Historically Syrians have written and spoken about exile in their literature, long before the Syrian war began in March of 2011 (p. 4). This paper brings together two Syrian women writers who straddle this epochal moment in Syrian history: Mohja Kahf and Ibtisam Tracy. It seeks to bridge the gap between these writers and to chart new trends in diasporic writing by Syrian women. It argues…
Topographies of Exclusion: Refugees, Windrush, and the Politics of Space in Recent British Film
Through an analysis of recent film and moving image work documenting the Hostile Environment, this essay challenges the distinction often drawn between postcolonial migrants and refugees, arguing that Britain's punitive immigration and asylum policy broadens what it means to be made stateless. With particular reference to the Windrush docudrama Sitting in Limbo (2020) and Remi Weekes' asylum horror His House (2020), this essay explores how a seri…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)