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Title: | Postcolonial studies, migration, and literature : positions, perspectives, and debates |
Other Titles: | The Routledge companion to migration literature |
Authors: | Bugeja, Norbert |
Keywords: | Postcolonialism in literature Emigration and immigration in literature Refugees in literature Arabic literature -- Morocco -- 21st century Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration |
Issue Date: | 2024 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Citation: | Bugeja, N. (2024). Postcolonial studies, migration, and literature : positions, perspectives, and debates. In G. Adair, R. Fasselt & C. McLaughlin (Eds.), The Routledge companion to migration literature (pp. 129-138). Routledge. |
Abstract: | In his disquieting novel Leaving Tangier (2009 [2006]), Moroccan-French novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun invites the reader in on a sinister opening scene. The Café Hafa on the Tangerian coast is described as “an observatory for dreams and their aftermath” where, across the sea from the Spanish mainland, the café’s customers smoke kif “and stare at the horizon as if seeking to read their fate” . “They look at the sea, at the clouds that blend into the mountains, and they wait for the twinkling lights of Spain to appear […] and sometimes, even when the lights are lost in fog and bad weather, they see them anyway”. The prospective migrants await the chance to pay the commission to the passeur, the people smuggler, hoping to successfully navigate the marine corridor across a strait through which a “fluid boundary exists” between the Mediterranean waters and “the fierce surge of the Atlantic”—and then to seek entry into Spain. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/126625 |
ISSN: | 9781003270409 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtEng |
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