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Title: | A polity in poetry? Notes on the edge(s) of memory in Stephanos Stephanides’s the wind under my lips |
Other Titles: | Shifting horizons and crossing borders |
Authors: | Bugeja, Norbert |
Keywords: | Postcolonialism Cold War -- Influence Liberalism -- Europe Politics and literature Poetics Memory -- Cross-cultural studies |
Issue Date: | 2024 |
Publisher: | Brill |
Citation: | Bugeja, R. (2024). A polity in poetry? Notes on the edge(s) of memory in Stephanos Stephanides’s the wind under my lips. In A. Evangelou (Eds.), Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders (pp. 177-193). Leiden: Brill. |
Abstract: | This chapter takes its cue from the anxieties apparent within post-Cold War liberal thought in Europe, and subsequent soundings of the state of twentieth-century liberal politics in the continent, to reflect on the affinity between memory writing, postcoloniality, and the distribution of political belief – precisely at those edges where Europe today may likely reconvene its political and poetic geographies. Reading through Stephanos Stephanides’s The Wind Under My Lips, the essay examines it in light of memory writing, of its activity “at the edges” of received forms of memorial narration, and its performing of political memory from the contingent and vision-imbued edge of Europe’s politics today. It also invokes a certain affinity between acts of memory, responsibility and the question of postcolonial agency. Within this relation, memory writing exploits its representational arc of manoeuvre to take upon itself the proportions and stature of a praxis and a labour. This is a work that shifts the dynamics of moral idealism towards a constellation of memorial worlds that unfold in subjective space and a politics of listening and of living elsewhere that is dynamized in and by a writing of active recall – worlds that liberal politics in Europe today may ill-afford to be oblivious to. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/126379 |
ISBN: | 9789004693302 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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