Literature’s Refuge (eBook)

Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape

William Stroebel (Autor)

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2025
390 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691266091 (ISBN)

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Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle Eastrecovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, ';pacifying' the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood. This imposition of borders not only uprooted peoples from their place in the world; it also displaced many of their stories from a place in world literature. In Literature's Refuge, William Stroebel recovers and weaves together work by fugitive writers, oral storytellers, readers, copyists, editors, and translators dispersed by this massive ';unmixing' of populations and the broader border logic that it set in motion. Stroebel argues that two complementary forces emerged as a template for the Eastern Mediterranean's cultural landscape: the modern border, which reshuffled people through a system of filters and checkpoints; and modern philology, which similarly reshuffled their words and works. Philologists and publishers defined modern literature by picking apart, extracting, reformatting, or dispossessing refugee and diasporic texts across a racialized borderscapea gray zone of semi-inclusion and semi-exclusion, semimobility and immobility.Stroebel reaches into the chinks and crannies of this borderscape to reconstitute the rich textual geography between Greek Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam, between Greek-script, Arabic-script, and Latin-script literary traditions at the edges of Europe and the Middle East. Doing so, he offers a new methodological toolkit for rewriting the modern borderscapes of world literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Translation/Transnation
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus. 12 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Agathangelos • Alphabet • Anatolia • arabic • authorities • books • border • Borderscape • Cavafy • Century • Christian • Community • Cultural • Cypriot • Doukas • Edib • Edition • Editors • Final • Greek • Greek language • Greek speaking • Greek turkish • halide • Hellenism • Historical • History • Islam • Islamic • Karamanli • Kazakoglou • language • Linguistic • Literature • Manuscript • Material • media • Misail • Muslims • narrative • Narrator • Nation • Networks • Novel • Orthodox • Ottoman • paper • Philological • Philology • Poems • Poetry • Population • population exchange • Print • Production • Readers • Refugees • Sani • Savidis • Script • Story • texts • Textual • Tongue • Turkey • Turkish • twentieth • war • Writer • Yashin
• ISBN-13: 9780691266091 / 9780691266091