Inhumanities: Asylum seeker letters and the precarious 'human' rights of contemporary life narrative

2001年至2005年期间，寻求庇护者和活动家之间的信件交流是澳大利亚本世纪跨文化交流和政治活动的有力资料库，它们为最近关于公民身份和国家认同的辩论提供了独特的见解。当被解读为一种独特的生活叙事体裁时，这些信件及其所产生的书信体是当前人权和证词学术研究的重要新资源。该项目将为关于当代文学中人类和非人类表现的辩论做出重要而独特的澳大利亚贡献。

Letters exchanged between asylum seekers and activists between 2001-05 are a powerful repository of cross cultural exchange and political activism in Australia this century, and they offer unique insights into debates about citizenship and national identity in the very recent past. When read as a distinctive genre of life narrative, these letters and the epistolary communities which they engender are important new resources in current scholarship on human rights and testimony. This project will make a vital and distinctive Australian contribution to debates about representations of the human and the inhuman in contemporary literature.