LEADER 02496nam 2200409 450 001 9910480930003321 005 20210901203039.0 010 $a1-5275-2020-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000007102377 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568637 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5568637 035 $a(OCoLC)1059555620 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007102377 100 $a20181122d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNegotiating borderlines in four contemporary migrant writers from the Middle East /$fby Petya Tsoneva Ivanova 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, England :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-5275-1606-7 327 $aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xThemes, motives 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xThemes, motives. 676 $a810.9 700 $aIvanova$b Peta? Coneva$01037166 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480930003321 996 $aNegotiating borderlines in four contemporary migrant writers from the Middle East$92457942 997 $aUNINA