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Curing oneself of one's (father)land : nosto/patriography in "The return: fathers, sons, and the land in between" by Hisham Matar
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Curing oneself of one's (father)land : nosto/patriography in "The return: fathers, sons, and the land in between" by Hisham Matar
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| title: | Curing oneself of one's (father)land : nosto/patriography in "The return: fathers, sons, and the land in between" by Hisham Matar |
| alternative title: |
Leczenie się z ojczyzny : nosto/patriografia w "The Return: fathers, sons, and the land in between" Hishama Matara |
| author: | Kusek Robert 
|
| journal title: | Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies |
| volume: | 8 |
| issue: | 2 |
| date of publication : | 2020 |
| pages: | 210-228 |
| ISSN: |
2643-8380 |
| eISSN: |
2643-8399 |
| DOI: | |
| URL: | |
| date accessed: |
2021-10-01 |
| notes: | Bibliogr. s. 227-228 |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | In 2012, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar returned to his native Libya after a hiatus of over thirty years so as to learn about the fate of his father—an anti-Gaddafi political dissident who in 1979 took his family into exile and who only a decade later was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Libyan regime. However, the search for the writer’s father turned out to be something more than just a fact-finding inquiry into what had happened to Jaballa Matar. It metamorphosed into a profoundly auto/biographical project in which he investigated not only the father-son relationship but also his “expatriate” position with regard to his fatherland. Moreover, the whole experience resulted in Matar completing and publishing an account of his father/home-search entitled "The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between" (2016). The aim of this paper is to discuss Matar’s "The Return" as a specimen of nosto- and patriography. The memoir will be analysed with reference to two narrative categories mentioned above (namely a narrative about one’s homecoming [nostos narrative] and about the father-son relationship [patriography]) and their specific poetics developed and formulated by the micro-genres’ prominent theorists. The paper will also address an issue which appears to be particularly pertinent both to the auto/biographical self and to the book’s readers: the “success” at both homecoming and overcoming grief. |
| keywords in English: | The Return, Hisham Matar, nostography, patriography |
| number of pulisher's sheets: | 1,5 |
| departmental parameterization: | 20 |
| affiliation: | Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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