Refugee Experience in Alan Gratz’s Refugee and Gillian Cross’ After Tomorrow Margarete Rubik Summary As a response to recent

Abstract

As a response to recent mass migratory movements, numerous children’s novels about refugees have been published in the last decades. The paper analyses two of these novels, Alan Gratz’s Refugee (2017) and Gillian Cross’s After Tomorrow (2013), and puts them into the context of the ‘transcultural turn’ in cultural studies. The paper also presents the results of a survey among university lecturers of various countries about the benefits, challenges and teaching aims of including migrant and refugee literature into the courses they teach.

Keywords

• transcultural literature
• migrant literature
• children’s novels