Unbounded Space: Inter-textual Palestine in Ibrāhīm Naṣrallāh's Balcony of Delirium.
Ibrāhīm Naṣrallāh's (b. 1954 Amman)Shurfat al-ḥadhayān(2006,Balcony of Delirium) confronts teleological assumptions about space, nation, and the novel. A critical reading of this novel about Palestinian experience illustrates how Benedict Anderson's definition of the nation, Julia Kristeva's notion...
| Published in: | Middle Eastern Literatures Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 41 - 62 |
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Apr2015
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