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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237 and index