This thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives can be read and written. Through close-reading, interviews with journalists and authors, and transcribed conversations with migrants/refugees, it demonstrates the importance of storytelling at the border and anticipates more compassionate ways of telling stories. It weaves critical analysis of form with personal reporting and reflection. Ultimately, it reflects on what literary writing can learn from journalism. It invites readers to question what might make journalism about immigration more readable and honest.
Salzman, Nell,
"Literatures of Immigration: The Ethicality of Depicting Migrant Stories"
(2022).
Comparative Literature Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/y1gn-5z59
