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dc.contributor.authorGjesdal, Anje Müller
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-18T12:56:46Z
dc.date.available2020-05-18T12:56:46Z
dc.date.created2019-05-16T15:46:21Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationBorderlands e-journal. 2019, 18 (1).en_US
dc.identifier.issn1447-0810
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2654823
dc.description.abstractNarratives of exile and migration pose important questions related to the role of language in the representation of space, both that of home and away as well as sites of transit. This article argues that the textualisation of space is a central strategy for representing these spaces as place, i.e. as the site and product of lived experience, and that toponyms, place names are an important linguistic tool in this respect. The article draws on critical place name studies in order to examine the political and emotional aspects of place names in narratives of exile and migration. To do so, it examines the role of place names in Abdellah Taïa’s novel Une mélancolie Arabe, a text where place names play an important role, as the protagonist navigates between his native Morocco, his adopted city Paris, and Cairo, capital of the Arab world; and where the names of the cities come to function as symbolic representations of home and freedom. The use of place names thus becomes ameans of recreating places that may be geographically distant, but emotionally close. Moreover, the close relations the text establishes between place names on the one hand, and emotions and affect on the other, give reason to reconsider the textual and mnemonic functions of place names.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBorderlandsen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://www.borderlands.net.au/vol18no1_2019/gjesdal_toponomy.pdf
dc.titleTravelling Toponymy. The contribution of place names to the textual representation of place and memory in Abdellah Taïa’s Une mélancolie Arabeen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.source.volume18en_US
dc.source.journalBorderlands e-journalen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.cristin1698413
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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