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Informationen zum Autor Bouchra Benlemlih is professor of English and postcolonial studies at Ibn Zohr University. Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University. Klappentext Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores ways in which the impact of (post)colonial and global conditions on individual and group identities is reflected in different cultures and represented in world literary texts. Zusammenfassung Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores ways in which the impact of (post)colonial and global conditions on individual and group identities is reflected in different cultures and represented in world literary texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Eugene Chen Eoyang Acknowledgments Introduction Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune Part I: Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond 'Imperial Globality' Chapter One: Be-coming a Rhizome: The Contingencies of the Self in the Posthuman Age Paul Jahshan Chapter Two: Belonging and (Un) belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories and The Lost Garden Yu Min Claire Chen Chapter Three: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane's Novels: Empire, Nation, and Gender Azize Kour Chapter Four: Identity Crisis, Retaliation and Deliberations of Women in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers Shibani Banerjee Part II: Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives Chapter Five: The National and the Transnational: Negotiating Identity in Leila Aboulela's Minaret Bouchra Benlemlih Chapter Six: Clandestine Bodies in Transit: Refugees' Pipe Dreams in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Exit West Lava Asaad Chapter Seven: "Dwelling Unconnected" and Claiming Space: Diaspora Spaces in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake Semsettin Tabur Chapter Eight: Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: Hassouna Mosbahi's Wad¿'an Rozalie Boutheina Khaldi Chapter Nine: Alien... Arab... and maybe Illegal in America: Narrating the Paradoxes of Hope, Roots, and Away Lhoussain Simour Chapter Ten: Towards a Transnational Turn in Zighen Aym¿s Still Moments: The diaspora's Odyssey of ¿Floating at the Top of the Melting Pot" Sihem Arfaoui Part III: The Ethics And Politics of Representation Chapter Eleven: The African on Hegel's "Threshold of the World's History": The Trouble of Manichean Representation in The Philosophy of History (1830) Lahoussine Hamdoune Chapter Twelve: A Modern Moroccan Eye on the West: Amine Elalamy's Un Marocain A New York Khadija Belhiah Chapter Thirteen: Staging the Chronicle: The Transfer and Reevaluation of Discourse: A National Identity Defined at the Crossroads Laureano Corces Chapter Fourteen: Writing the Refugee Experience for Middle Grade and Young Adult Readers Tara Moore Chapter Fifteen: When East Meets West in Victoria and Abdul Rachid Acim Index About the Contributors ...
