Wessam Elmeligi

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration

A Poetics of Return

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return combines immigration and identity theories to re-examine the notion of migration in Arabic literature. The study discusses Arabic narratives from the 1100s to 2010, some of which have never been translated in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781793600974
• ISBN-10: 179360097X
• Artikelnr.: 60415500

Autorenporträt

Wessam Elmeligi teaches at Macalester College and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Cultural Identity and Migration
Chapter 1: Defining Cultural Identity
Chapter 2: Introducing the Motif of Return in Arabic Migration Narrative
Part II. Types of Return
Chapter 3: Triumph in Return: Renarrating Identity in Naguib Mahfouz's
"Return of Sinuhe" (1941)
Chapter 4: Loss in Staying: The Failure to Return in Taha Hussein's A Man
of Letters (1935)
Chapter 5: The In-Between: The Return of the Mind in Miral Al-Tahawy's
Brooklyn Heights (2010)
Part III. A Poetics of Return
Chapter 6: Ethnicity: Contrasting Identities in Tawfiq Al-Hakim's A Bird of
the East (1938)
Chapter 7: Religion: Reconciling Identities in Yahya Haqqi's The Saint's
Lamp (1940)
Chapter 8: Place: Locating Identity in Suhayl Idris's Al-Hayy Al-Latini
(1953)
Chapter 9: Sex: Eroticizing Migration in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration
to the North (1966)
Chapter 10: Class: Laboring Migration in Mohammad Abdul Wali's They Die
Strangers (1971)
Chapter 11: Nationality: Historicizing Identity in Sonallah Ibrahim's
Amrikanli (2003)
Part IV. Concluding with a Question
Chapter 12: What the Ancestors Want: Questions of Heritage and Identity in
Reem Bassiouney's Love, the Arabic Way (2009)