Overview
- Liberates the Mediterranean from land-bound and historicist constructs
- Features a unique focus on the Mediterranean in the modern period, rather than the medieval or early modern
- Appeals to scholars of Mediterranean studies, memory studies, comparative literature, and history
Part of the book series: Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Mediterranean Modernities: Immanence and Dynamics
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Mediterranean Temporalities: Remembrance, Haunting, Slow Time, Anachronism
Reviews
“In its innovative interdisciplinary and transcultural approach this lively collection of writings brings us to the heart of the Mediterranean as an evolving critical concept and historical challenge. The multiplication of prospects and temporalities propose a constellation that remains irreducible to a single order of time and telling. Pushing the existing order of explanation out of joint, the Mediterranean here becomes the critical site and cultural promise of an altogether more significant historicity.” (Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Mediterranean, Università di Napoli, Orientale, Italy)
“Critically Mediterranean is an outstanding collection of essays. Transnational and cross-disciplinary, it refocuses fundamental issues of Mediterranean studies—mobility, interconnectedness, multiple or layered temporalities—on the modern and contemporary periods, demonstrating the importance of the Mediterranean for interrogating key concepts of modernity. At the same time, it makes a compelling case for the centrality of the modern and contemporary periods in defining the concept of ‘Mediterranean.’ A timely and valuable contribution to the field of Mediterranean studies.” (Michele Hannoosh, Professor of French, University of Michigan, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Associate Professor of French at Tulane University, USA. She is the author of The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critically Mediterranean
Book Subtitle: Temporalities, Aesthetics, and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis
Editors: yasser elhariry, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Series Title: Mediterranean Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71764-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71763-0Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10107-7Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71764-7Published: 06 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-5592
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historiography and Method, Modern History, Cultural History, European History, History of the Middle East, History of North Africa