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Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and others who are situated outside normatively defined citizenship. In this book, Johanna Sellman analyses the changing aesthetic and political dimensions of Arabic exile literature and demonstrates how frameworks such as eastwest cultural encounters, political commitment and modernist understandings of exile which were dominant in 20th-century Arabic exile literature have been giving way to writing that explores the dynamics of forced migration and the liminal spaces of borders and borderlands.

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"Johanna Sellman draws our attention to a vital new development in contemporary Arabic literature, namely the work of Arab refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants in Europe. Convincingly arguing that twentieth-century paradigms for analyzing Arab-European encounters in Arabic literature are inadequate for understanding the speculative mode of this emergent corpus, Sellman develops a compelling new approach that builds on Viktor Shklovsky's notion of ""defamiliarization"". This is a significant contribution to scholarship on modern Arabic literature. --Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois"

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Johanna Sellman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University.

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