Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space

ISBN-13: 9781032240008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Bahriye Kemal

Opis

This book breaks new ground by being the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective combined with spatial considerations. The book puts Cyprus on the postcolonial partition map, whilst rewriting, making and breaking the postcolonial partition map through the Meditereanean island of Cyprus.

Spis treści

1. Introduction of a Postcolonial and Partitioned Place, Space and Identity
2. Literature Education Across Dominant-Emergent (Post)Colonial Partition Positions: Hyphenated Turkish-Cypriotists and Greek-Cypriotists
3. Ethnic Motherland Nationalists: Mothers' Blood and Spiritual Place
4. Colonialist, Communist, Post-1964/74 Partition Moment: UnHyphenated DeEthnicised Cypriotists
5. Rhythmanalysts of Post-Linobambakoi Diaspora: Transnational Whale of Space/Place We Can All Inhabit

O autorze

Bahriye Kemal is a lecturer in postcolonial and contemporary literatures at the University of Kent. Her teaching and research engage with postcolonial and partition studies, comparative Ottoman and British imperialism, spatial studies, migration, comparative literature, Postcolonial Eastern Mediterranean, postcolonial islands, solidarity and activism. Her articles on anticolonial gendered nationalism, the postcolonial partitioned diaspora, and the East Mediterranean have appeared in various postcolonial journals. She is co-editor of Visa Stories: Experiences between Law and Migration (2013), and Nicosia beyond barriers: Voices from a divided city (2019). She is currently writing a book on the postcolonial Mediterranean, with focus on literature and arts from Cyprus, Palestine, Syria and beyond.