Postcolonial memoir in the Middle East
Subtitle: rethinking the liminal in Mashriqi writing
By: by Nobert Bugeja
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 40
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415509138; 9780203105207
Subjects: Middle Eastern literature; History and criticism; Autobiography in literature; Liminality in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rethinking the liminal; title: Exilic memory and the spaces of occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I saw Ramallah; title: "A dark cellar under his feet": negotiating the diasporic-Israeli threshold in Amos Oz's A tale of love and darkness; title: H?z?n-dialectics: The agency of the past in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories of a city; title: Through the archive, towards self-knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins: a memoir; title: Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A world I loved: some conclusions, more beginnings.