What is it about?
This chapter examines Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, arguing that Matar’s memoir offers up its resources as a space of asylum and political shelter while simultaneously affording the memoirist a dimension of surrogate agency by which to perpetuate his disappeared father’s political voice.
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Why is it important?
This chapter is an important resource for the critical understanding and appreciation of the literary output of author Hisham Matar.
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This page is a summary of: Chapter 12 ‘What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?’: Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar’s The Return, December 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9781474443210-018.
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