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Author Dakkak, Nadeen

Title Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World Rewriting Ghurba
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (215 p.)
Series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ontributors -- Introduction -- Theorizing Ghurba -- Beyond the Encounter With the "West" -- Rewriting Ghurba -- Notes -- References -- Part I Ghurba in Narratives of Slavery and Racism -- 1 Dissolving Into the Nile: Ottoman Reformism and Maternal Slavery in Sergüzest -- The Slave Mother and the Masterpiece: Theoretical Implications -- The Double Time of the Enslaved Mother -- Displacing Slavery (Back Home) to the Province: Slaves' Ghurba
The Exilic Slaver: Egyptian Turks as Istanbul's Pieds-Noirs -- Locating Ottoman Anti-Slavery Literature in the Provinces -- Melancholy, Black and White: The Slave's Unmournable Mother -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Re-Writing the Other: Uncovering the Legacies of Slavery in Suad Amiry's My Damascus -- The Institution of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire -- Beit Jiddo: A Site of Bondage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Ghurba in Narratives of Displacement
3 The Woman From Tantoura: Structural Marginalisation and the Re-Making of Home Among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon -- Introduction -- Background to the Novel -- Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Othering, Marginalisation, and Exclusion -- Narrating Palestinian Exile in Lebanon -- Memory and Home-Remaking Among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Memory and Resistance in Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World -- Introduction -- Abulhawa and the Art of Storytelling -- Rituals of Survival: Palestinians in Kuwait -- Nationalism Without a Nation-State
Boom Years in Kuwait -- Exiles Once Again -- "Here Is Where We Began": Challenging the Official Story -- References -- 5 The Refugee as a "Russian Doll": Haitham Hussein's Readings of Ghurba and Exile at the Time of the Global "Migration Crisis" -- Introduction -- Contemporary Shifts in Arab Migration Writings: The State of Research and Critical Debates On "Refugeeism" -- Haitham Hussein's Life-Path: Trapped Into Homeland, Boundless in Exile? -- New Boundaries of Ghurba: "Otherness" and "Belonging" Within the Asylum Regime -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List
Part III Religious Spaces of Ghurba and Belonging -- 6 Ghurba and the Emergence of a Gendered Pious Consciousness in Popular Religious Novels By Arab Women -- Background and Contextualization -- Amina Al-Sadr and the First Religious Novel -- Ghurba and Political Freedom in Khawla Al-Qazwini's When a Man Thinks -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 Can the Qazani Speak?: Nineteenth Century Naqshbandi Migrants and Translators in Mecca During the Age of Print -- Naqshbandi Lives: A Historical and Intellectual Heritage -- The Importance of Being Translated -- Can the Qazani Speak in Mecca?
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Dhayl of a Dhayl
Subject Alienation (Social psychology) -- Middle East
Alienation (Social psychology)
Middle East
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000838619
1000838617