The Migrant in Arab Literature
Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia
- 192 pages
- English
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The Migrant in Arab Literature
Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia
About this book
This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume offers a set of new insights on a cluster of tropes: self-discovery, alienation, nostalgia, transmission and translation of knowledge, sense of exile, reconfiguration of the relationship with the past and the identity, and the building of transnational identity. A coherent yet multi-faceted narrative of micro-stories and of transcultural and transnational Arab identities will emerge from the essays: the volume aims at reversing the traditional perspective according to which a migrant subject is a non-political actor.
In contrast to many books about migration and literature, this one explores how the migrant subject becomes a specific literary trope, a catalyst of modern alienation, displacement, and uncertain identity, suggesting new forms of subjectification. Multiple representations of the migrant subject inform and perform the possibility of new post- national and transcultural individual and group identities and actively contribute to rewriting and decolonizing history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Migrating to and in Europe Beyond the Nahḍawī and Modernist Paradigm: Mudun bi-lā nakhīl by Ṭāriq al-Ṭayyib and Taytanikāt Ifrīqiyya by Abū Bakr Khāl as Novels of Forced Migration
- 2 Transcultural Identities in Two Novels by Ḥanān al-Shaykh
- 3 The Body and the Migrating Subject in the Gulf: Daqq al-ṭabūl by Muḥammad al-Bisāṭī
- 4 Writing Arabic in the Land of Migration: Waciny Laredj from Ḥārisat al-ẓilāl: Dūn Kīshūt fī al-Jazāʾir to Shurafāt baḥr al-shamāl
- 5 Resistant Assimilation and Hometactics as Decolonial Practices: The Stories of Leilah and Ibrahim in The Orange Trees of Baghdad
- 6 The Negotiation of Identity in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and West of Jordan
- 7 “Smotherland” Speaks: Syrian Refugee Identity in the Spaces Between Media and Literature
- 8 The Global Migration Context and the Contemporary Iraqi Novel
- Epilogue
- Index