@article{ART003373064},
author={Chung Suna},
title={The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2026},
volume={39},
number={2},
pages={167-196}
TY - JOUR
AU - Chung Suna
TI - The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2026
VL - 39
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 167
EP - 196
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This paper examines refugee representation and the politics of memory in The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. It explores how this play challenges dominant refugee framing shaped by state power and media discourse. While these dominant narratives often portray refugees as security threats or passive victims, this play foregrounds their lived experiences, embodied trauma, and personal testimonies. By analyzing how institutional framing marginalizes refugees’ memories, identities, and self representation, this study argues that their suppressed memories function as a form of counter-memory that challenges official narratives of displacement. Through the transformation of personal testimonies into collective memory, The Jungle rehumanizes refugees as grievable individuals rather than objects of surveillance or humanitarian intervention. Ultimately, the theatrical reconstruction of suppressed memories constitutes a form of political resistance to dominant discourses on refugees.
KW - The Jungle;refugee framing;politics of memory;counter-memory;self representation
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Chung Suna. (2026). The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle. Journal of Modern English Drama, 39(2), 167-196.
Chung Suna. 2026, "The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.39, no.2 pp.167-196.
Chung Suna "The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle" Journal of Modern English Drama 39.2 pp.167-196 (2026) : 167.
Chung Suna. The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle. 2026; 39(2), 167-196.
Chung Suna. "The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle" Journal of Modern English Drama 39, no.2 (2026) : 167-196.
Chung Suna. The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle. Journal of Modern English Drama, 39(2), 167-196.
Chung Suna. The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2026; 39(2) 167-196.
Chung Suna. The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle. 2026; 39(2), 167-196.
Chung Suna. "The Representation of Refugee Framing and the Politics of Memory in The Jungle" Journal of Modern English Drama 39, no.2 (2026) : 167-196.
