The Two-Edged Sea: Heterotopias of Contemporary Mediterranean Migrant Literature

Nahrain Al-Mousawi

Published by Gorgias Press 2021

The Two-Edged Sea

Heterotopias of Contemporary Mediterranean Migrant Literature

Nahrain Al-Mousawi

Volume 12 in the series The Modern Muslim World

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243739

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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 recurring images of migrants washing up along southern Europe’s picturesque beaches in the visual archive of undocumented migration. But the boat has also sharply put into relief the divides of the Mediterranean. After all, the few miles of the Mediterranean separating Africa’s northern shore and Europe’s southern shore is a common observation in migrant narratives. At the same time, they also reflect on how the Mediterranean has been imagined as starkly divided into two incommensurable spaces and civilizational models – North and South (in actuality, by colonial powers in the modern period). Much Mediterranean migrant literature indeed captures the Mediterranean’s fossilized binaries, North and South. But, The Two-Edged Sea also reveals that one inheres within the other. While the book explores two Mediterraneans, with asymmetrical power relations that reflect the sea’s northern and southern shores, it also delves into how they are and have been in dialogue with each other, effectively deconstructing the binary.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Memory Work in the Mediterranean Crossing: Nostalgia in Morocco’s Migration Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 2. The Immigrant Dream: ‘Dream? Nightmare, More Like’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 3. Imagining the Mediterranean and Its Migrants: The Ambivalence of the Uncanny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 4. Mediterranean Frontier, Mediterranean Circuit: Undocumented Migration in Egyptian Literature’s Double Imaginary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 5. Saharan-Mediterranean Transits: Impossible ‘Arrival’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 6. Death at the Border: Making and Unmaking the Migrating Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: History; Islam; Religion

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Published: October 29, 2021
ISBN: 9781463243739