1st Edition
Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing
By Norbert Bugeja
Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: Rethinking the Liminal 1. Exilic Memory and the Spaces of Occupation in Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah 2. ‘A Dark Cellar Under His Feet’: Negotiating the Diasporic-Israeli Threshold in Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness 3. Hüzün-Dialectics: The Agency of the Past in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul – Memories of a City 4. Through the Archive, towards Self-Knowledge: Amin Maalouf’s journey in Origins – A Memoir 5. Wadad Makdisi Cortas’ A World I Loved: Some Conclusions, More Beginnings
Biography
Norbert Bugeja is a lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, UK.
