How long does the journey take?- Navigating Precarity and Precarious Itineraries in Christy Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The trope of the protagonist's homecoming post triumphing over ordeals, is a quotidian literary scene. Christy Lefteri in The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019) limns how the population caught in the crosshairs of conflict is prone to loss of life, livelihood, family, home, land and everything normal and familiar. The paper, through a close textual analysis, endeavours to probe into geographies of humanitarian crisis, activating a tryst with home and asylum, displacement and dispossession, loss and memory, reality and construct, journey and stasis, suffering and confronting, guilt and grief, blindness and illusion and so on. The sense of home not only manifests as elusive or as plural possibilities but can transmute into an entity of the past in a dystopic clime. The text through the lens of precarity dovetails two vulnerable dispositions for the refugees - the warzone of Syria and the journey of escape - only to discern congruities between the two.

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This paper examines the geographies of a humanitarian crisis in "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" and explores the connections between home, displacement, suffering, and other themes through a close textual analysis.