Hi All – Attached is my paper about Behrouz Boochani’s digital resistance during detention in Australia’s offshore processing center on Manus Island from 2013-19.  Armed with only a contraband cellphone, Boochani shot a documentary, wrote a book, and filed numerous articles while he was detained. This paper focuses on the book as a shift in Refugee Poetics because of the the way the phone allowed Boochani to collapse the distance between readers and the national policy enacted in their name.

It is a bit long because of the Persian ghazals but it reads quick (she says with hope :).

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and look forward to meeting you in January.  It is a snowy winter wonderland in Seattle today, a rare and beautiful occurrence!