1st Edition
Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World Rewriting Ghurba
Introduction
Nadeen Dakkak
Part I: Ghurba in Narratives of Slavery and Racism
1. Dissolving into the Nile: Ottoman Reformism and Maternal Slavery in Sergüzeşt
Burcu Gürsel
2. Re-writing the Other: Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in Suad Amiry’s My Damascus
Arththi Sathananthar
Part II: Ghurba in Narratives of Displacement
3. The Woman from Tantoura: Structural Marginalisation and the Re-Making of Home among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Roba Al-Salibi
4. Memory and Resistance in Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World
Benay Blend
5. The Refugee as a "Russian Doll": Haitham Hussein’s Readings of Ghurba and Exile at the Time of the Global "Migration Crisis"
Annamaria Bianco
Part III: Religious Spaces of Ghurba and Belonging
6. Ghurba and the Emergence of a Gendered Pious Consciousness in Popular Religious Novels by Arab Women
Hawraa Al-Hassan
7. Can the Qazani Speak? Nineteenth Century Naqshbandi Migrants and Translators in Mecca During the Age of Print
Mariam Elashmawy
Part IV: Negotiating National Imaginaries of Belonging and Exclusion
8. Spectral Migrant Workers and the Paradox of Modern Nation-Building in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People
Lava Asaad
9. The Arab-African Cultural Identity in Idris Ali’s Dongola
Rania Salem
Biography
Nadeen Dakkak is Lecturer in World and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Exeter. She was IASH- Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh in 2021– 2022 and completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research examines literary and cultural productions on migration in the Gulf.
