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Postcolonial memoir in the Middle East : rethinking the liminal in Mashriqi writing /
This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and 'threshold' states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis si...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and 'threshold' states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal space as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the memorializing present. Within the present Mashriqi memoir form, liminal spaces may be read as articulations of 'representational spaces' - narrative spaces that, based as they are within the histor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237 and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136252853 1136252851 9780203105207 0203105206 9781283709439 1283709430 9780203881736 0203881737 |