02496nam 2200409 450 991048093000332120210901203039.01-5275-2020-X(CKB)4100000007102377(MiAaPQ)EBC5568637(Au-PeEL)EBL5568637(OCoLC)1059555620(EXLCZ)99410000000710237720181122d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNegotiating borderlines in four contemporary migrant writers from the Middle East /by Petya Tsoneva IvanovaNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2018.1 online resource (274 pages) illustrations1-5275-1606-7 Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography.The book considers the persistent tendency to represent the "Middle East" as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries. This perspective of enclosure haunts Middle Eastern Studies and is part of ongoing cultural debates on cross-border circulation, currently challenged by spectacular outbursts of violence along resurfacing lines of division. This critical study analyses selected works of four contemporary Anglophone migrant writers from the Middle East (namely, Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak) to demonstrate that, in spite of the forceful lines that remain after religious, ethnic and political disputes, this region does not exist as a rigidly delimited place in the writing of migrants who reclaim it back from beyond its boundaries. Rather than being a permanent location, it is constructed as a place that flows into other places and is constantly reshaped by a variety of personal stories, migrant trajectories, departures and returns.American literatureThemes, motivesElectronic books.American literatureThemes, motives.810.9Ivanova Petâ Coneva1037166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480930003321Negotiating borderlines in four contemporary migrant writers from the Middle East2457942UNINA