Tropics of Travel. 4: Homes. Proceedings of the International Conference Organized at the Université de Liège (13-15 January 2011)

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TROPICS OF TRAVEL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frédéric BAUDEN, Introduction III

Daniel BODI, Some Trajectories of Homecoming in Ancient and Medieval Near

Eastern Literature 1

Abdallah CHEIKH-MOUSSA, Il n’est de « nostalgie du pays » que révolue : une

lecture de la Risāla fī l-Ḥanīn ilā l-Awṭān 21

Rosella DORIGO, The Many Sides to a Return in the Novel Šarq al-Mutawassiṭ by

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf 33

Brigitte FOULON, Le « Chez soi » dans la culture arabe archaïque et classique 47

Stephan MILICH, From Nostalgia to Nightmares: Enactments of Travel and

Trauma in Contemporary Iraqi Poetry 69

Nada NADER, Reminiscence of Home: Memory and Belonging in Ghassan

Kanafani’s fiction 81

Wen-chin OUYANG, Return or Departure? Homecoming in al-Ṭahṭāwī’s

Travel-ogue 89

Maria Elena PANICONI, ʿUṣfūr min al-Šarq by Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm and the Impossible

Homecoming to the Imaginary East 109

Richard VAN LEEUWEN, Coming Home, or Death Postponed in Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s

Season of Migration to the North 125 ... ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... ...