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Author Sellman, Johanna, author.

Title Arabic exile literature in Europe : defamiliarising forced migration / Johanna Sellman
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages)
Series Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Contents Introduction: Speculative belongings in contemporary Arabic migration literature -- Shifting frameworks for studying contemporary Arabic literature of migration to Europe: a case for border studies -- Harraga: Mediterranean crossings in Arabic migration literature -- The subversion of borders and 'Nightmare Realism' in Iraqi migration literature -- Mistranslation and the subversion of the citizen-migrant binary -- Writing against 'crisis': defamiliarising the refugee narrative in Arabic literature and theatre in Berlin -- Decentralizing the Metropole: forced migration literature in London and Paris -- Conclusion: Imagining mobility
Summary Analyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-253) and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2022)
Subject Arabic literature -- Europe -- History and criticism
Authors, Exiled.
Refugees in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
Arabic literature.
Authors, Exiled.
Refugees in literature.
Europe.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1399500147
9781399500142
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9781399500159