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Politics of Space and Identity in Middle Eastern-Australian Writing

Cartographies of Belonging

Av Mohsen Hanif

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What does it mean to belong when the ground beneath you is racially coded and mapped by another’s power? The Politics of Space and Identity in Middle Eastern-Australian Writing: Cartographies of Belonging takes this question to Middle Eastern-Australian writing and discovers that space is never neutral. Ranging from a hijab-wearing Palestinian Australian woman in Melbourne to an Iranian refugee on Manus Island, and from a Lebanese Australian novelist dissecting Western Sydney’s class divides to a single mother reclaiming her mobility, these authors speak from strikingly different positions. Yet all reveal belonging as a struggle, not a given. Mohsen Hanif argues that home is no sanctuary but a perpetual negotiation, where gentrification, border policy, and patriarchal domesticity shape sense of belonging to places. Bridging literary criticism and human geography with clarity and theoretical nerve, this book will appeal to anyone who thinks that multiculturalism’s positive surface covers different sides that require a closer look.
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Mohsen Hanif, associate professor at Kharazmi University, Tehran, works on English, postcolonial, and immigration literatures. His recent articles appear in Neophilologus, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, English Studies in Africa, CLCWeb, The Midwest Quarterly, and English Studies in Canada, among others. He coauthored the award-winning Indigenising Magical Realism in Iran (2019, Persian).

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“Mohsen Hanif’s Cartographies of Belonging examines several Middle Eastern – Australian writers, some of whom, such as Randa Abdel-Fattah, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, and Behrouz Boochani, are well-known to students of contemporary Australian literature. With theoretical acuity and sociocultural specificity, Hanif examines how ideas of “home” in these migrant and diaspora writers are variegated and flexible, but also exert a palpable, inescapable pull. This is a valuable and confidently written book which will appeal to a diverse set of readers.”Nicholas Birns, FAHA, New York University “Cartographies of Belonging offers a rich analysis of fictional works by transplanted Arabs and Iranians and their experiences of urban, natural, multicultural, gendered spaces in Australia. Breaking new ground, it makes a significant contribution to the study of diasporas across the globe.”Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine

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