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Migrant Multimodal Narratives: From Blogs and Print Media to YouTube

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Abstract

Current technology places migrant narratives into a fresh, diverse and at times hybrid act of narrating. Due to the proliferation of digital media and global culture, migrants’ journeys are frequently documented through various multimodal forms. The impact of new media on the body of current migrant narratives – particularly those that fall under the canon of postcolonial literature – will be explored in the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Warsan Shire. This chapter also aims at highlighting how current technology is increasingly used as a means for people to tell their stories, so that their voices can be heard by a wider citizenship and most relevantly therefore might be used as advocacy tools for a cause.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 13 Luglio 2022 | Accettato: 21 Ottobre 2022 | Pubblicato 26 Gennaio 2023 | Lingua: en

Keywords Social engagement • Racism • Reni Eddo-Lodge • Warsan Shire • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Multimodal narration

Copyright © 2023 Maria Festa. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/015


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