Norbert Bugeja

Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East

Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reconsiders liminality in postcolonial thought by visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, offering a unique intervention in the understanding of threshold states within postcolonial literary studies. Challenging received perceptions of the concept, Bugeja's incisive readings situate liminal space today as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the volatile memorializing present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781138115897
• ISBN-10: 1138115894
• Artikelnr.: 57057466

Autorenporträt

Norbert Bugeja is a lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking the Liminal 1. Exilic Memory and the Spaces of
Occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah 2. 'A Dark Cellar Under His
Feet': Negotiating the Diasporic-Israeli Threshold in Amos Oz's A Tale of
Love and Darkness 3. Hüzün-Dialectics: The Agency of the Past in Orhan
Pamuk's Istanbul - Memories of a City 4. Through the Archive, towards
Self-Knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins - A Memoir 5. Wadad
Makdisi Cortas' A World I Loved: Some Conclusions, More Beginnings