Arabic Exile Literature in Europe

Defamiliarising Forced Migration

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Johanna Sellman, The Ohio State University) Sellman, Johanna (Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

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Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic and political dimensions of Arabic exile literature and demonstrates how frameworks such as east west cultural encounters, political commitment and modernist understandings of exile which were dominant in 20th-century Arabic exile literature have been giving way to writing that explores the dynamics of forced migration and the liminal spaces of borders and borderlands.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-15
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor280
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399500135

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Johanna Sellman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University. She has published articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Theatre Research International, Journal of Arabic Literature and Al-Arabiyya: Journal of The American Association of Teachers of Arabic. This will be her first book.

IntroductionShifting Frameworks for Studying Contemporary Arabic Literature of Migration to Europe: A Case for Border StudiesHarraga: Mediterranean Crossings in Arabic Migration LiteratureThe Subversion of Borders and "Nightmare Realism"Mistranslation and the Subversion of Citizen-Migrant BinaryWriting Against ‘Crisis:’ Defamiliarizing the Refugee Narrative in Arabic Literature and Theatre in BerlinDecentring the Metropole: Forced Migration Literature in London and ParisConclusion

Johanna Sellman draws our attention to a vital new development in contemporary Arabic literature, namely the work of Arab refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants in Europe. Convincingly arguing that twentieth-century paradigms for analyzing Arab-European encounters in Arabic literature are inadequate for understanding the speculative mode of this emergent corpus, Sellman develops a compelling new approach that builds on Viktor Shklovsky’s notion of "defamiliarization". This is a significant contribution to scholarship on modern Arabic literature.