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Author Bugeja, Norbert, 1980-

Title Postcolonial memoir in the Middle East : rethinking the liminal in Mashriqi writing / Norbert Bugeja
Published New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (242 pages)
Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 40
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 40.
Contents Introduction: Rethinking the liminal -- Exilic memory and the spaces of occupation in Mourid Barghouti's I saw Ramallah -- "A dark cellar under his feet": negotiating the diasporic-Israeli threshold in Amos Oz's A tale of love and darkness -- H?z?n-dialectics: The agency of the past in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories of a city -- Through the archive, towards self-knowledge: Amin Maalouf's journey in Origins: a memoir -- Wadad Makdisi Cortas' A world I loved: some conclusions, more beginnings
Summary This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and 'threshold' states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal space as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the memorializing present. Within the present Mashriqi memoir form, liminal spaces may be read as articulations of 'representational spaces' - narrative spaces that, based as they are within the histor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237 and index
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Subject Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
Autobiography in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Liminality in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Autobiography in literature
Liminality in literature
Middle Eastern literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012004318
ISBN 9781136252853
1136252851
9780203105207
0203105206
9781283709439
1283709430
9780203881736
0203881737