International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 9(1), pp. 1-5, January 2021

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2020.340

 

Review paper

 

Abstract

 

The pain and trauma of refugees have certainly paved way to an unremitting discourse and every discourse in turn harbors myriad oppugns. The paper purports to accentuate that how the vulnerable and bruised bodies of Refugees have become as “Spaces” that are ‘other’ and delineates the site of refugee camps within a ‘spatial’ vantage. It further aims to elaborate the damaging bodies of Refugees as ‘Heterotopias’, a concept developed by Michel Foucault in 1967. I will talk of the trauma of detainees in Manus and Nauru islands in the Pacific region of Australia. I will further elucidate the term ‘refugee’; its historicity and the traumatic implications on those who are forcibly displaced.
 
 KEY WORDS: Words: Refugee camps, pain and trauma, Heterotopia, Michel Foucault, bruised bodies.

Cite This Article As: Mir, SA (2021). Representing Pain, Trauma and the Damaging bodies of Refugees through the lens of Foucauldian “Heterotopia”. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 9(1): 1-5