The Migrant in Arab Literature
Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia
Martina Censi editor Maria Elena Paniconi editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:20th Dec '22
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This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume offers a set of new insights on a cluster of tropes: self-discovery, alienation, nostalgia, transmission and translation of knowledge, sense of exile, reconfiguration of the relationship with the past and the identity, and the building of transnational identity. A coherent yet multi-faceted narrative of micro-stories and of transcultural and transnational Arab identities will emerge from the essays: the volume aims at reversing the traditional perspective according to which a migrant subject is a non-political actor.
In contrast to many books about migration and literature, this one explores how the migrant subject becomes a specific literary trope, a catalyst of modern alienation, displacement, and uncertain identity, suggesting new forms of subjectification. Multiple representations of the migrant subject inform and perform the possibility of new post- national and transcultural individual and group identities and actively contribute to rewriting and decolonizing history.
The experience of migration, a key factor in the shaping of modern Arabic literature, has taken new, unprecedented dimensions in the last decades. Drawing on the finest scholarship in several fields, the contributions of this volume explore multiple representations of the migrant in both contemporary Arabic and Arab American literature, and discuss their role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities, thus providing the reader valuable insights into a most recent literary production as well as into the deep changes it reveals in the social and political contexts these literary works represent.
Richard Jacquemond, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, Aix-Marseille Université, France
ISBN: 9780367135881
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 539g
192 pages