Michel Agier

Silence and the Word: An Inquiry into the Accounts of Refugees in African Camps

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Abstract

This work considers the testimonies of those people identified as «refugees» in humanitarian spaces. Numerous examples of collections of testimonies are ana¬lysed to broadly compare form and context, bringing them together in a logic of presentation ranging from an almost impossible word, silence even, to an elaborate and collective form of «conscientisation writing» to finally «artistic testimony».

Keywords

  • refugee camps
  • testimony
  • victim
  • author
  • Africa

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