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

This book reconsiders liminality in postcolonial thought by visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, offering a unique intervention in the understanding of threshold states within postcolonial literary studies. Challenging received perceptions of the concept, Bugeja's incisive readings situate liminal space today as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the volatile memorializing present.

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking the Liminal 1. Exilic Memory and the Spaces of Occupation in Mourid Barghouti’s I Saw Ramallah 2. ‘A Dark Cellar Under His Feet’: Negotiating the Diasporic-Israeli Threshold in Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness 3. Hüzün-Dialectics: The Agency of the Past in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul – Memories of a City 4. Through the Archive, towards Self-Knowledge: Amin Maalouf’s journey in Origins – A Memoir 5. Wadad Makdisi Cortas’ A World I Loved: Some Conclusions, More Beginnings

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Norbert Bugeja
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138115897
• ISBN: 978-1-138-11589-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature