Depicting the black African refugee in The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson

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dc.contributor.authorAkpome, Aghogho
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dc.date.accessioned2026-03-12T06:55:25Z
dc.date.available2026-03-12T06:55:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentNameEnglish
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the depiction of black African refugees in The Jungle, a2017 play by two young British playwrights, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The Jungle is a theatrical recreation of the lives of refugees from the migrant camp in Calais, from which hundreds of refugees made – and still make –often fatal attempts to enter the UK through the Channel Tunnel. The graphic images of the squalid living conditions of its residents – many of them from Africa – dominated the news, as did the dramatic manner in which the camp was dismantled in 2016. This paper is interested in the textual gestures and representational decisions of the playwrights in the written play that provide clues to the possible ways in which black Africans are thought of and constructed in the minds of Europeans. In this way, this inquiry contributes to analysing literary engagements with contemporary African migration to Europe provided from European points of view.
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
dc.identifier.citationAkpome, A. 2022. Depicting the black African refugee in The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. English in Africa, 49(1), pp.7-27.
dc.identifier.issn2071-7474 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0376-8902 (print)
dc.identifier.otherhttps://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v49i1.1
dc.identifier.otherhttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-iseaeng_v49_n1_a1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10530/58950
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dc.issuenumber49 / 1
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dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.pages7 - 27
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherInstitute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.subjectBlack
dc.subjectMigration
dc.subjectRefugee crisis
dc.subjectEurope
dc.subjectJoe Murphy
dc.subjectJoe Robertson
dc.subjectThe Jungle
dc.titleDepicting the black African refugee in The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
dc.title.journalEnglish in Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
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