Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus: Transportal Literatures of Empire, Nationalism, and Sectarianism 3030582353, 9783030582357
This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Em
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Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on Terminology
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1 ‘The Key of Western Asia’: An Introduction to Transportal Literatures
Historical, Linguistic, and Literary Background
The Problem of Cypriot Literatures and Postcolonialism
Cyprus and the UK
Cyprus and Western Europe
Cyprus and Greco-Turkish Nationalisms
Questions of Form: Travel and Transportal Literatures
‘Postcolonial’ Travel Writing
Transportal Literatures
2 ‘A Business of Some Heat’: Sexuality, Disease, and Gendered Orientalism on Venus’ Island, 1878–1973
Cyprus, Degeneration, and Gendered Orientalism
The Homosocial Segregation of Empire
‘I Am Bound to Speak’: British Women’s Responses to Orientalism
Conclusions
3 Re-imagining the Cypriot Nation: Writing-Back to the Colonial Travelogue, 1964–1974
‘Postcolonial’ Tactics: Costas Montis’ Closed Doors and Taner Baybars’ Plucked in a Far-Off Land
Intersecting Genres
Writing-Back to the British Colonial Book
Languages as/and Cutting Instruments
Writing-Back to Nationalisms
Conclusions
4 Travelling Across the Buffer Zone: Intersections in Language, Genre, and Identity, 2000–2013
Re-writing the Limits of Nationalist Partitions
Counter-Travelling the Buffer Zone
The Transportal Language of the Buffer Zone
The Homes of the Buffer Zone
Poems of Homelessness and the Unhomely
Conclusions
5 Re-gendering Borders: Partitions in Contemporary Cypriot Women’s Writing
Rewriting History from the Periphery
Re-claiming Gendered Spaces
The Closed Doors of Gender
Rejecting the ‘Provincial’ Through Translation as Resistance
Translating Across Mother-Tongues and Father-Tongues
Confronting Father-Tongues in the No-Man’s-Land of Translation
Distanced Readings of Gender
Conclusions
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on Terminology
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1 ‘The Key of Western Asia’: An Introduction to Transportal Literatures
Historical, Linguistic, and Literary Background
The Problem of Cypriot Literatures and Postcolonialism
Cyprus and the UK
Cyprus and Western Europe
Cyprus and Greco-Turkish Nationalisms
Questions of Form: Travel and Transportal Literatures
‘Postcolonial’ Travel Writing
Transportal Literatures
2 ‘A Business of Some Heat’: Sexuality, Disease, and Gendered Orientalism on Venus’ Island, 1878–1973
Cyprus, Degeneration, and Gendered Orientalism
The Homosocial Segregation of Empire
‘I Am Bound to Speak’: British Women’s Responses to Orientalism
Conclusions
3 Re-imagining the Cypriot Nation: Writing-Back to the Colonial Travelogue, 1964–1974
‘Postcolonial’ Tactics: Costas Montis’ Closed Doors and Taner Baybars’ Plucked in a Far-Off Land
Intersecting Genres
Writing-Back to the British Colonial Book
Languages as/and Cutting Instruments
Writing-Back to Nationalisms
Conclusions
4 Travelling Across the Buffer Zone: Intersections in Language, Genre, and Identity, 2000–2013
Re-writing the Limits of Nationalist Partitions
Counter-Travelling the Buffer Zone
The Transportal Language of the Buffer Zone
The Homes of the Buffer Zone
Poems of Homelessness and the Unhomely
Conclusions
5 Re-gendering Borders: Partitions in Contemporary Cypriot Women’s Writing
Rewriting History from the Periphery
Re-claiming Gendered Spaces
The Closed Doors of Gender
Rejecting the ‘Provincial’ Through Translation as Resistance
Translating Across Mother-Tongues and Father-Tongues
Confronting Father-Tongues in the No-Man’s-Land of Translation
Distanced Readings of Gender
Conclusions
6 Conclusions
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
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