Arabic Exile Literature in Europe Defamiliarising Forced Migration

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 a...

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Main Author: Sellman, Johanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2022
Edition:1
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Subjects:
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
European
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Literary Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics
Literature: history and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
ISBN:9781399500159, 1399500155, 9781399500128, 1399500120
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9781399500159
1399500155
9781399500128
1399500120
DOI:10.1515/9781399500142