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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/107218| Title: | What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return? Memoir and the aporia of refuge in Hisham Matar’s the return |
| Other Titles: | Refugee imaginaries : research across the humanities |
| Authors: | Bugeja, Norbert |
| Keywords: | Authors, American -- Biography Travelers' writings, Arabic -- Libya Qaddafi, Muammar, 1942-2011 Libya -- History, Military -- 21st century Political violence -- Libya -- History -- 21st century |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Citation: | Bugeja, N. (2019). What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return? Memoir and the aporia of refuge in hisham matar’s the return. In L. Stonebridge, S. Durrant, D. Farrier, & A. Woolley (Eds.), Refugee imaginaries: research across the humanities (228-247). United Kingdom: Edinburgh university press. |
| Abstract: | This essay will examine Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, arguing that Matar’s memoir offers up its resources as a space of asylum and political shelter while simultaneously affording the memoirist a dimension of surrogate agency by which to perpetuate his disappeared father’s political voice. In his memoir, published in late 2016, Matar gives an account of his return to and a renewed relation with the land of his upbringing after the 2011 uprising that resulted in the ousting of Muammar Qaddafi. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/107218 |
| ISBN: | 9781474443227 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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