The Migrant in Arab Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia
Redaktion: Censi, Martina; Paniconi, Maria Elena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical chapters that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429648649
• Artikelnr.: 66340915

Autorenporträt

Martina Censi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bergamo (Italy). She is a member of the Équipe de Recherche Interlangue (ERIMIT) at the University of Rennes 2 (France). In her research, she deals with literary representations of the body, processes of the construction of masculinity and femininity, and migration with a special focus on contemporary Arabic novel. She has published the book Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines: Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence (2016) and other articles about modern and contemporary Arabic literature. Maria Elena Paniconi is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Macerata. She is interested in the rise of the Arab novel and in the dialectics among literary genres during the Arab Nah¿a. She has written articles and essays in the Journal of Arabic Literature and Oriente Moderno on nah¿aw¿ authors and co-edited with Jolanda Guardi the special issue of Oriente Moderno, "Nah¿a Narratives". She wrote the entries on ¿¿h¿ ¿usayn and Müammad ¿usayn Haykal for the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam. Her book Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel: Egyptian Intersections (Routledge 2023) explores a corpus of Egyptian canonical novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, through the lens of international Bildungsroman.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Martina Censi) 1. Migrating to and in Europe beyond the Nah
aw
and Modernist Paradigm: Mudun bi-l
nakh
l by
riq al-
ayyib and Taytanik
t Ifriqiyya by Ab
Bakr Kh
l as Novels of Forced Migration (Maria Elena Paniconi) 2. Transcultural Identities in two Novels by
an
n al-Shaykh (Martina Censi) 3. The Body and the Migrating Subject in the Gulf: Daqq al-
ab
l by Mu
ammad al-Bis
(Cristina Dozio) 4. Writing Arabic in the Land of Migration: Waciny Laredj from
risat al-
il
l: D
n K
sh
t f
al-
az
'ir to Shuraf
t bär al-sham
l: Am
r Amstird
m (Jolanda Guardi) 5. Resistant Assimilation and Hometactics as Decolonial Practices: The Stories of Leilah and Ibrahim in The Orange Trees of Baghdad (Shima Shahbazi) 6. The Negotiation of Identity in Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land and West of Jordan (Sara Arami) 7. "Smotherland" Speaks: Syrian Refugee Identity in the Spaces between Media and Literature (Roula Salam) 8. The Global Migration Context and the Contemporary Iraqi Novel (Ikram Masmoudi) 9. Epilogue (Maria Elena Paniconi)