RT Book, Section
T1 Crime Fiction's Disobedient Gaze: Refugees' Vulnerability in Ausma Zehanat Khan's A Dangerous Crossing (2018)
A1 Cuder Domínguez, María Pilar
AB This chapter explores Ausma Zehanat Khan’s fourth police procedural, A Dangerous Crossing (2018), as an example of human rights fiction that casts a “disobedient gaze” on the current global refugee situation. Using the conventions of the crime genre, the novel manages to provide a detailed analysis of the gender vulnerability of Syrian refugees stranded in Greek camps and mobilises a transformative kind of empathy by drawing alternative affective economies that help readers expand the limit of our imagination. The chapter argues that Khan’s refugee advocacy rests on envisioning the human within those who are depicted as nonhuman in media and political descriptions of forced migration in the context of increased border securitisation.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22917
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22917
LA eng
NO M. I. Romero-Ruiz and P. Cuder-Domínguez (eds.), Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance, Thinking Gender in Transnational Times, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3_6
NO Grant FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P (research Project “Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies”) funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe.”
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 2 jun 2026