Dr Norbert Bugeja has contributed a chapter on the Mediterranean politics of melancholy in Orhan Pamuk’s work to the volume Marxism, Postcolonial Theory and the Future of Critique—Critical Engagements with Benita Parry. Dr Bugeja’s chapter is titled '“I Remember, I Remember so as Not to Forget!” Orhan Pamuk’s Melancholic Agency and the Splenetic Périples of Mediterranean Writing'.
The volume celebrates the life, scholarship and intellectual output of Benita Parry—a pioneering exponent of materialist critique in postcolonial studies—and includes cutting-edge engagements with Parry’s thought from a range of perspectives, including peripheral modes of writing, literature and the history of dissent, national liberation, resistance, historical consciousness and the problematics of liberal secularist politics in the post-imperial context, and further afield.
The volume, co-edited by Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma, is published by Routledge and includes a conversation with Parry herself, together with chapters from Timothy Brennan, Rashmi Varma, Michael Niblett, Sharae Deckard, Peter Hallward, Keya Ganguly, Pranav Jani, David Johnson and Caroline Rooney.
The volume celebrates the life, scholarship and intellectual output of Benita Parry—a pioneering exponent of materialist critique in postcolonial studies—and includes cutting-edge engagements with Parry’s thought from a range of perspectives, including peripheral modes of writing, literature and the history of dissent, national liberation, resistance, historical consciousness and the problematics of liberal secularist politics in the post-imperial context, and further afield.
The volume, co-edited by Sharae Deckard and Rashmi Varma, is published by Routledge and includes a conversation with Parry herself, together with chapters from Timothy Brennan, Rashmi Varma, Michael Niblett, Sharae Deckard, Peter Hallward, Keya Ganguly, Pranav Jani, David Johnson and Caroline Rooney.
Dr Bugeja is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at the Mediterranean Institute, Co-ordinator of the Institute’s M.A. (Research) in Mediterranean Studies and General Editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies. Students interested in programmes offered by the Mediterranean Institute may visit the Institute’s portal at www.um.edu.mt/medinst.
Picture credit: Rashmi Varma