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Record Nr.

UNINA9910686467203321

Autore

Sellman Johanna

Titolo

Arabic Exile Literature in Europe : Defamiliarizing Forced Migration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781399500142

1399500147

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Disciplina

892.7099206914

Soggetti

Arabic literature - History and criticism

Arabic literature - Europe - History and criticism

Authors, Exiled

Refugees in literature

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Speculative Belongings in Contemporary Arabic Migration Literature -- 1 Shifting Frameworks for Studying Contemporary Arabic Literature of Migration to Europe: A Case for Border Studies -- 2 Harraga: Mediterranean Crossings in Arabic Migration Literature -- 3 The Subversion of Borders and ‘Nightmare Realism’ in Iraqi Migration Literature -- 4 Mistranslation and the Subversion of the Citizen–Migrant Binary -- 5 Writing against ‘Crisis’: Defamiliarising the Refugee Narrative in Arabic Literature and Theatre in Berlin -- 6 Decentring the Metropole: Forced Migration Literature in London and Paris -- Conclusion: Imagining Mobility -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Analyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century.