Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bugeja, Norbert, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 40.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • H?z?n-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.