TY - JOUR
T1 - Unbounded space
T2 - inter-textual Palestine in Ibrāhīm Naṣrallāh's Balcony of Delirium
AU - Parr, Nora
PY - 2015/8/27
Y1 - 2015/8/27
N2 - 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 of the bounded text, and the retrospective process of historical narrative as understood by Etienne Balibar are part of what Foucault would call a dominant episteme, a set of assumptions that structures thinking about space, and reveals the outlines of this episteme. Delirium creates an innovative process of textual inter-relationship and referencing that, together, point toward an alternative structuring of space and time which makes it possible for realities of Palestinian community to be narrated.
AB - 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 of the bounded text, and the retrospective process of historical narrative as understood by Etienne Balibar are part of what Foucault would call a dominant episteme, a set of assumptions that structures thinking about space, and reveals the outlines of this episteme. Delirium creates an innovative process of textual inter-relationship and referencing that, together, point toward an alternative structuring of space and time which makes it possible for realities of Palestinian community to be narrated.
UR - http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24693/
U2 - 10.1080/1475262X.2015.1067014
DO - 10.1080/1475262X.2015.1067014
M3 - Article
SN - 1475-262X
VL - 18
SP - 41
EP - 61
JO - Middle Eastern Literatures
JF - Middle Eastern Literatures
IS - 1
ER -