Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island: Contesting Refugee Experience in the Global South.
This article makes a case for reframing refugee literature through reading Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, translated from Farsi by Omid Tofighian. Written in detention on Manus Island via text messages on WhatsApp, Boochani's book has won wide acclaim in Australia and internationall...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 531 - 547 |
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