21st-Century Refugee Writing as a Refraction of World Literature: Rerouting Multicultural Canons.

Author / Editor
Rupp, Jan.

Title
21st-Century Refugee Writing as a Refraction of World Literature: Rerouting Multicultural Canons.

Published
Anglisik: International Journal of English Studies 31.2 (2020): 35–51.

Description
Comments on the role of refugee literature in the "shifting contexts of [literary] canonisation" and then explores "the role of Chaucer in 21st-century refugee writing," focusing on aspects of CT (especially MLT) that resonate in Patience Agbabi’s "Telling Tales" (2014) and in three volumes of "Refugee Tales" (2016, 2018, 2019) edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
Man oif Law and His Tale