Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing - Rilegato

Libro 37 di 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Bugeja, Norbert

 
9780415509138: Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing
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ISBN 10: 0415509130 ISBN 13: 9780415509138
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

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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 the memorializing present. Within the present Mashriqi memoir form, liminal spaces may be read as articulations of 'representational spaces' ― narrative spaces that, based as they are within the histories of local communities, are nonetheless redolent with memorial and imaginary elements. Liminal consciousness today, Bugeja argues, is a direct consequence of the impact of volatile present-day memories on the re-conception of the open wounds of history.

Incisive readings of life-writings by Mourid Barghouti, Amin Maalouf, Orhan Pamuk, Amos Oz, and Wadad Makdisi Cortas demonstrate the double-edged representational chasm that opens up when present acts of memorializing are brought to bear upon the elusive histories of the early-twentieth-century Mashriq. Sifting through the wide-ranging theoretical literature on liminality and challenging received views of the concept, this book proposes a nuanced, materialist, and original rethinking of the liminal as a more vigilant outlook onto the political, literary and historical predicaments of the contemporary Middle East.

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Norbert Bugeja is a lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent, UK.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415509130
ISBN 13 
9780415509138
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Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
256
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