Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Speculative belongings in contemporary Arabic migration literature -- Shifting frameworks for studying contemporary Arabic literature of migration to Europe: a case for border studies -- Harraga: Mediterranean crossings in Arabic migration literature -- The subversion of borders and 'Nightmare Realism' in Iraqi migration literature -- Mistranslation and the subversion of the citizen-migrant binary -- Writing against 'crisis': defamiliarising the refugee narrative in Arabic literature and theatre in Berlin -- Decentralizing the Metropole: forced migration literature in London and Paris -- Conclusion: Imagining mobility.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2022).
Summary
Analyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century.
