The Two-Edged Sea : : Heterotopias of Contemporary Mediterranean Migrant Literature / / Nahrain Al-Mousawi.

The boat journey is central to the narrative of Mediterranean migration of the undocumented. The boat itself is flimsy, fragile, unstable, and easily breakable. It is trifling and insubstantial. But it has captured the attention of the world – after all, the boat and its aftermath have produced recu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The Modern Muslim World ; 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Memory Work in the Mediterranean Crossing: Nostalgia in Morocco’s Migration Literature
  • Chapter 2. The Immigrant Dream: ‘Dream? Nightmare, More Like’
  • Chapter 3. Imagining the Mediterranean and Its Migrants: The Ambivalence of the Uncanny
  • Chapter 4. Mediterranean Frontier, Mediterranean Circuit: Undocumented Migration in Egyptian Literature’s Double Imaginary
  • Chapter 5. Saharan-Mediterranean Transits: Impossible ‘Arrival’
  • Chapter 6. Death at the Border: Making and Unmaking the Migrating Body
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index