Mapping exile

Post-Arab Spring revolutionaries’ diasporic voices in Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21726591
AutoresKhaled Mostafa Karam (0000-0002-4210-1147, Suez University, autor correspondente), Hamdy Ebeid Khalil (0009-0007-0521-3485, Suez University), Mahmoud El Bagoury (0009-0002-3215-7670, Suez University)
Ano2023
Volume26
Fascículo2
Páginas218-235
Data de publicação2023-05-04
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMiddle Eastern Literatures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1475-262X • E-ISSN: 1475-2638
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1475262x.2024.2308845
OpenAlexW4391947026
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas18

Serag Mounir’s Diaspora Spring (Rabīʿ al-shatāt, 2019) scrutinizes the critical effects of the Arab Spring on Arab youth, offering a multilayered portrayal of the present Middle East and its revolutionaries who have disappeared from both local and international discourse. In particular, the novel depicts the purposeful marginalization of Arab Spring revolutionaries in the diaspora—a considerable sector of the Arab community. This study places Diaspora Spring within the context of the contemporary post-Arab Spring novel, finding in the work a post-postcolonial vision of the revolutionary movement and the reign of counterrevolution. The novel censures what it depicts as obsolete postcolonial paradigms that fail to account for the persistence of neocolonialism. Second, this study draws on the theoretical framework of Homi Bhabha’s “third space” and “unhomeliness” in order to analyze the revolutionaries’ distinguished, yet liminal position during the Arab Spring and in the current counterrevolutionary era

Ancient history · Diaspora · Media studies · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · North African History and Literature