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The migrant in Arab literature : displacement, self-discovery and nostalgia

Censi, Martina, editor, Paniconi, Maria Elena, editor

Overview

\"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-faced 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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Subject: Emigration and immigration in literature. / Immigrants in literature. / Exiles in literature. / Arabic literature History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9780367135881, 9781032303994

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PJ7519.E54 M54 2023	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE