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Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration - A Poetics of Return (Hardcover)
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Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration - A Poetics of Return (Hardcover)
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Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of
Return offers a new perspective of migration studies that views the
concept of migration in Arabic as inherently embracing the notion
of return. Starting the study with the significance of the Islamic
hijra as the quintessential migrant narrative in Arabic culture,
Elmeligi offers readings of Arabic narratives as early as Ibn
Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan and as recent as Miral Al-Tahawy's 2010
Brooklyn Heights, and as varied as Egyptian novelist Naguib
Mahfouz's short story adaptation of the ancient Egyptian Tale of
Sinuhe and Yemeni novelist Mohammed Abdl Wali's They Die Strangers,
including novels that have not been translated in English before,
such as Sonallah Ibrahim's Amrikanli and Suhayl Idris' The Latin
Quarter. To contextualize these narratives, Elmeligi employs
studies of cultural identity and their features that are most
impacted by migration. In this study, Elmeligi analyzes the
different manifestations of return, whether physical or
psychological, commenting not only on the decisions that the
characters take in the novels, but also the narrative choices that
the writers make, thus viewing narrativity as a form of
performativity of cultural identity as well. The book addresses
fresh angles of migration studies, identity theory, and Arabic
literary analysis that are of interest to scholars and students.
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