Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting Ghurba
Redaktion: Dakkak, Nadeen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph explores and investigates narratives of physical, psychological, and emotional dislocation that take place within the Arab world, approaching them as manifestations of the Arabic word ghurba, or estrangement, as a feeling and state of being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000838619
• Artikelnr.: 67336381

Autorenporträt

Nadeen Dakkak is Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Exeter. She was IASH- Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 2021- 2022 and completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research examines literary and cultural productions on migration in the Gulf.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Ghurba in Narratives of Slavery and Racism 1.
Dissolving into the Nile: Ottoman Reformism and Maternal Slavery in
Sergüze¿t 2. Re-writing the Other: Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in
Suad Amiry's My Damascus Part II: Ghurba in Narratives of Displacement 3.
The Woman from Tantoura: Structural Marginalisation and the Re-Making of
Home among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 4. Memory and Resistance in
Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World 5. The Refugee as a "Russian
Doll": Haitham Hussein's Readings of Ghurba and Exile at the Time of the
Global "Migration Crisis" Part III: Religious Spaces of Ghurba and
Belonging 6. Ghurba and the Emergence of a Gendered Pious Consciousness in
Popular Religious Novels by Arab Women 7. Can the Qazani Speak? Nineteenth
Century Naqshbandi Migrants and Translators in Mecca During the Age of
Print Part IV: Negotiating National Imaginaries of Belonging and Exclusion
8. Spectral Migrant Workers and the Paradox of Modern Nation-Building in
Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary People 9. The Arab-African Cultural
Identity in Idris Ali's Dongola