Melancholic Migrations and Affective Objects in Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma
Melancholia has been read as an individual pathological response to loss, a national cultural reaction to the end of the British Empire, and as a collective political emotion felt by socially marginalised groups. Fadia Faqir’s 'My Name is Salma' (2007) conceives of melancholia as exceeding...
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-01-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | http://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/11 |