Migrating to and in Europe beyond the nah?awi and modernist paradigm : Mudun bi-lā nakhīl by Tāriq al-Ṭayyib and Taytanikāt Ifriqiyya by Abū Bakr Khāl as novels of forced migration / Maria Elena Paniconi -- Transcultural identities in two novels by Ḥanān al-Shaykh / Martina Censi -- The body and the migrating subject in the Gulf : Daqq al-ṭabūl by Muḥammad al-Bisāṭī / Cristina Dozio -- Writing Arabic in the land of migration : Waciny Laredj from Ḥārisat al-ẓilāl : Dūn Kīshūt fī al-Ğazā'ir to Shurafāt baḥr al-shamāl : Amṭār Amstirdām / Jolanda Guardi -- Resistant assimilation and hometactics as decolonial practices : the stories of Leilah and Ibrahim in The orange trees of Baghdad / Shima Shahbazi -- The negotiation of identity in Laila Halaby's Once in a promised land and West of Jordan / Sara Arami -- "Smotherland" speaks : Syrian refugee identity in the spaces between media and literature / Roula Salam -- The global migration context and the contemporary Iraqi novel / Ikram Masmoudi.
Summary:
"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-faced 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 28
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