RT Generic
T1 Wayfarers in the Shadow: A Rambling Exploration of Migration Literature
A1 Solís Villaverde, Valeria Andrea
K1 Refugees
K1 Migrants
K1 Short stories
K1 The Refugee Tales
K1 Shatila Stories
K1 Oulamide Popoola
K1 Breach
K1 Assimilation
K1 Multiculturalism
K1 Acculturation
K1 Adaptations
AB This dissertation aims to focus on the sociopsychological  progression of numerous refugees and migrants through the analysis of several short stories written in English language and that are collected in projects that asses these experiences, such as The Refugee Tales series edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus, Shatila Stories translated by Nashba Gowanlock (2018) and Breach (2016) by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes, amongst others, thus providing a space for deep rumination on questionable migratory policies. The short stories of the wayfarers will allow to contrast real-life testimonies with the stages of migratory grief, the so-called “Ulysses syndrome”, and to address concepts such as “assimilation versus multiculturalism”, “acculturation versus adaptations” or “xenophobia and discrimination”. Thus, this dissertation is also meant to foster a space to explore innovative content associated to topics of migratory nature that represent highly controverted discussions in today’s world and society. The research methodology will be mainly of theoretical nature, using the interdisciplinary field of “border studies” – such as Mireille Rosello and Johan Schimanski’s Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (2017) or Doris Wastl-Walter’s The Routledge Research Companion to Border Studies (2011), among others – with the aim of relativizing and conceptually framing the stories to be analyzed, allowing the exploration of their cultural and geopolitical dynamism, having as a major objective to establish bridges between theory and reality as testified to by the “walkers”
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31158
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/31158
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2022-2023
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026