Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’
| dc.contributor.author | Camminga, B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T11:45:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, autobiographical narratives by transgender migrants and refugees from Africa have emerged, such as Farah Abdi’s Never Arrive, Neo Sandja’s Right Mind, Wrong Body, and Rizi Xavier Timane’s An Unspoken Compromise. This chapter examines these texts’ geographical focus and the resurgence of the ‘wrong body’ trope, considering what the transgender asylum narrative offers to the ‘trans travel narrative’. A key difference is the lack of a safe return — what I term the ‘unsafe return’. | |
| dc.description.submitter | PM2026 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.identifier | 0000-0002-4074-4472 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | B Camminga, ‘Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’’, in Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 133–54 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-33_05> | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9783965580855 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/48619 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | ICI Berlin Press | |
| dc.rights | © 2025 by the author(s) & ICI Berlin Press, Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. | |
| dc.school | School of Social Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Transgender refugee | |
| dc.subject | Trans travel narrative | |
| dc.subject | Trans autobiography | |
| dc.subject | Wrong body narrative | |
| dc.subject | Transgender Africa | |
| dc.subject.primarysdg | SDG-5: Gender equality | |
| dc.title | Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’ | |
| dc.type | Book chapter |