1st Edition

Writing Cyprus Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space

By Bahriye Kemal Copyright 2020
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present. Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist philosophy, Kemal proposes a new interdisciplinary spatial model, at once... Read more
  1. Introduction of a Postcolonial and Partitioned Place, Space and Identity
  2. Literature Education Across Dominant-Emergent (Post)Colonial Partition Positions: Hyphenated Turkish-Cypriotists and Greek-Cypriotists
  3. Ethnic Motherland Nationalists: Mothers' Blood and Spiritual Place
  4. Colonialist, Communist, Post-1964/74 Partition Moment: UnHyphenated DeEthnicised Cypriotists
  5. Rhythmanalysts of Post-Linobambakoi Diaspora: Transnational Whale of Space/Place We Can All Inhabit

Biography

Bahriye Kemal is a lecturer in postcolonial and contemporary literatures at the University of Kent. Her teaching and research engage with postcolonial and partition studies, comparative Ottoman and British imperialism, spatial studies, migration, comparative literature, Postcolonial Eastern Mediterranean, postcolonial islands, solidarity and activism. Her articles on anticolonial gendered nationalism, the postcolonial partitioned diaspora, and the East Mediterranean have appeared in various postcolonial journals. She is co-editor of Visa Stories: Experiences between Law and Migration (2013), and Nicosia beyond barriers: Voices from a divided city (2019). She is currently writing a book on the postcolonial Mediterranean, with focus on literature and arts from Cyprus, Palestine, Syria and beyond.