Memory Work in the Mediterranean Crossing: Nostalgia in Morocco's Migration Literature -- The Immirant Dream: 'Dream? Nightmare, More Like' -- Imagining the Mediterranean and Its Immigrants: The Ambivalence of the Uncanny -- Mediterranean Frontier, Mediterranean Circuit: Undocumented Migration in Egyptian Literature's Double Imaginary -- Saharan-Mediterranean Transits: Impossible 'Arrival' -- Death at the Border: Making and Unmaking the Migrating Body.
Summary:
"Clandestine migration from North Africa across the Mediterranean has been explored widely in the fields of social science in the past decade, but representations of undocumented migration in literature have not been subject to significant attention and analysis. Charting literary undocumented journeys from the Mediterranean's southern shores to the global North, the book contributes not only to the discourse on migration literature but on ideas of the Mediterranean as both a dividing border and unifying contact zone, especially vital to the contemporary resurgence of the study of seas"-- Provided by publisher.
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