Format:
1 Online-Ressource (262 p.)
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2 B/W illustrations 2 black and white illustrations
ISBN:
9781399500142
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Content:
Analyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st centuryProvides a comparative and sustained analysis of how literary, political and aesthetic categories in Arabic literature are being rethought in response to contemporary contexts of forced migrationReads contemporary Arabic migration literature in dialogue with migration and borderland studiesAnalyses literary narratives set in less-studied Arab diasporic spaces such as Finland, Denmark and Germany, as well as on contemporary migratory routes such as the Mediterranean, Turkey and Eastern EuropeFocuses on literature in the Arabic language while also including the work of francophone North African writers and writers publishing in both Arabic and European languagesSince the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic and political dimensions of Arabic exile literature and demonstrates how frameworks such as east–west cultural encounters, political commitment and modernist understandings of exile – which were dominant in 20th-century Arabic exile literature – have been giving way to writing that explores the dynamics of forced migration and the liminal spaces of borders and borderlands
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Series Editor’s Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Speculative Belongings in Contemporary Arabic Migration Literature
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1 Shifting Frameworks for Studying Contemporary Arabic Literature of Migration to Europe: A Case for Border Studies
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2 Harraga: Mediterranean Crossings in Arabic Migration Literature
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3 The Subversion of Borders and ‘Nightmare Realism’ in Iraqi Migration Literature
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4 Mistranslation and the Subversion of the Citizen–Migrant Binary
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5 Writing against ‘Crisis’: Defamiliarising the Refugee Narrative in Arabic Literature and Theatre in Berlin
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6 Decentring the Metropole: Forced Migration Literature in London and Paris
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Conclusion: Imagining Mobility
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References
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781399500128
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781399500128
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399500142
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