Title: Postcolonial memoir in the Middle East : rethinking the liminal in Mashriqi writing /
Authors: Bugeja, Norbert, 1980-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Middle Eastern literature History and criticism.; Autobiography in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Liminality in literature.
Contents: Introduction: Rethinking the liminal -- Exilic memory and the spaces of occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I saw Ramallah -- "A dark cellar under his feet": negotiating the diasporic-Israeli threshold in Amos Oz's A tale of love and darkness -- H?z?n-dialectics: The agency of the past in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories of a city -- Through the archive, towards self-knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins: a memoir -- Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A world I loved: some conclusions, more beginnings.