Threats, Victims, and Survivors: The Racialized Gendering of Syrian Refugees and Literary Contestations of Dominant Media Narratives

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41371

Mots-clés :

refugee, literature, agency, racialization, gender, representation

Résumé

Les récits des médias occidentaux sur les réfugiés syriens dépeignent souvent les hommes comme des menaces et les femmes comme des victimes sans défense, à travers des constructions racialisées et genrées. La littérature contemporaine de la diaspora syrienne peut contrer ces représentations médiatiques problématiques et dominantes. Plus précisément, L’Apiculteur d’Alep de Christy Lefteri et A Land of Permanent Goodbyes d’Atia Abawi offrent aux lecteurs la possibilité de ressentir de l’empathie en contestant les représentations racialisées des hommes réfugiés syriens comme des menaces, en décrivant de manière positive des protagonistes masculins complexes, en révélant leurs vulnérabilités et en mettant l’accent sur l’attention qu’ils portent à leur famille, et en particulier aux femmes qui en font partie. Ces oeuvres reconnaissent les attentes culturelles patriarcales à l’égard des Syriens et réaffirment l’agentivité et le pouvoir des voix des femmes réfugiées en montrant leurs effets sur l’empathie d’autrui.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Yasmin Nayrouz, University of Sussex

Yasmin Nayrouz is a postgraduate student at the University of Sussex. She can be reached at ynayrouz@gmail.com.

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Publié-e

2024-12-05

Comment citer

Nayrouz, Y. (2024). Threats, Victims, and Survivors: The Racialized Gendering of Syrian Refugees and Literary Contestations of Dominant Media Narratives. Refuge : Revue Canadienne Sur Les réfugiés , 40(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41371

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