Postcolonial memoir in the Middle East: rethinking the liminal in Mashriqi writing/

Main Author: Bugeja, Norbert, 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Routledge, [c2012]
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures 40
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking the liminal
  • Exilic memory and the spaces of occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I saw Ramallah
  • "A dark cellar under his feet": negotiating the diasporic-Israeli threshold in Amos Oz's A tale of love and darkness
  • Huzun-dialectics: The agency of the past in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories of a city
  • Through the archive, towards self-knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins: A memoir
  • Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A world I loved: some conclusions, more beginnings.