Critically Mediterranean

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Critically Mediterranean: An Introduction

   • yasser elhariry, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

   Pages 1-21

3. Afterward: Critical Mediterranean Times

   • Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

   Pages 261-271

4. Mediterranean Modernities: Immanence and Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Heidegger as Mediterraneanist

      • Annika Döring, Peregrine Horden

      Pages 25-43

   3. Lawrence Durrell’s Mediterranean Shores: Tropisms of a Receding Line

      • Isabelle Keller-Privat

      Pages 45-64

   4. The Text without Rupture: Jewish Itineraries of Mourning in Edmond El Maleh’s Mediterranean

      • Michal Raizen

      Pages 65-76

   5. Mediterranean Modernisms: The Case of Cypriot Artist Christoforos Savva

      • Antonis Danos

      Pages 77-110

5. Mediterranean Temporalities: Remembrance, Haunting, Slow Time, Anachronism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Old Anxieties in New Skins: The Project of al-Andalus and Nostalgic Dwelling in the New Mediterranean

      • Jonathan H. Shannon

      Pages 113-128

   3. Haunting the Mediterranean? Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Its Politics of the Afterwardly

      • Norbert Bugeja

      Pages 129-146

   4. The Mediterranean Seametery and Cementery in Leïla Kilani’s and Tariq Teguia’s Filmic Works

      • Hakim Abderrezak

      Pages 147-161

   5. Resemblance, Choice, and the Hidden: Mediterranean Aesthetics and the Political “Logics” of an Uncolonial Subjective Economy

      • John Baldacchino

      Pages 163-177

6. Deployments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. We Have Made the Mediterranean; Now We Must Make Mediterraneans

      • Claudio Fogu

      Pages 181-197

   3. Etel Adnan’s Transcolonial Mediterranean

      • Olivia C. Harrison

      Pages 199-215

   4. Heritage Washed Ashore: Underwater Archaeology and Regionalist Imaginaries in the Central Mediterranean

      • Naor Ben-Yehoyada

      Pages 217-239

   5. Mediterranean Lyric

      • yasser elhariry

      Pages 241-259

7. Back Matter

   Pages 273-276

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Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean informs philosophy, phenomenology, the poetics of time and space, and literary theory. Ranging from some of the earliest twentieth-century material on the Mediterranean to Edmond Amran El Maleh, Christoforos Savva, Orhan Pamuk, and Etel Adnan, the essays ask how modern and contemporary Mediterraneans may be deployed in political, cultural, artistic, and literary practice. The critical Mediterranean that emerges is plural and performative—a medium through which subjects may negotiate imagined relations with the world around them. Vibrant and deeply interdisciplinary, Critically Mediterranean offers timely interventions for a sea in crisis.

• modern Mediterranean
• trans-Mediterranean
• history of Greece
• Mediterraneanism
• Durrell's Mediterranean
• Mediterranean Alternative
• Alternative Modernism
• Maghrebi migrations
• Italian nationhood
• Orhan Pamuk
• Mediterranean Studies
• Christoforos Savva
• Etel Adnan

“Here at long last is a stunning set of critical essays and meditations that fills the void in Mediterranean Studies as currently practiced. As an ensemble, the volume engages the major conundrum of this field— the time-space-modernity nexus that has until now sundered the Sea along historical and historicist fault lines. In their prolegomena, the editors, elhariry and Talbayev, bring the pre-modern scholarship into conversation with the aesthetic, philosophical, and literary production of the modern and contemporary periods.” (Julia Clancy-Smith, Regents Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona, USA)

“In its innovative interdisciplinary and transcultural approach this lively collection of writings brings us to the heart of the Mediterranean as an evolving critical concept and historical challenge. The multiplication of prospects and temporalities propose a constellation that remains irreducible to a single order of time and telling. Pushing the existing order of explanation out of joint, the Mediterranean here becomes the critical site and cultural promise of an altogether more significant historicity.” (Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Mediterranean, Università di Napoli, Orientale, Italy)

“Critically Mediterranean is an outstanding collection of essays.  Transnational and cross-disciplinary, it refocuses fundamental issues of Mediterranean studies—mobility, interconnectedness, multiple or layered temporalities—on the modern and contemporary periods, demonstrating the importance of the Mediterranean for interrogating key concepts of modernity.  At the same time, it makes a compelling case for the centrality of the modern and contemporary periods in defining the concept of ‘Mediterranean.’  A timely and valuable contribution to the field of Mediterranean studies.” (Michele Hannoosh, Professor of French, University of Michigan, USA)

• Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

  yasser elhariry

• Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

  Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

yasser elhariry is Assistant Professor of French at Dartmouth College, USA. He is the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation, and the Postfrancophone Lyric (2017).

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Associate Professor of French at Tulane University, USA. She is the author of The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean (2017).

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