THE POST-1989 INTERPLAY OF EASTERN AND WESTERN/NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LITERARY PARADIGMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
THE POST-1989 INTERPLAY OF EASTERN AND WESTERN/NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LITERARY PARADIGMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN

Summary/Abstract: After 1989, as the Cold War system of superpower confrontation lost much of its hold over Europe and the world, multicultural regions like the Mediterranean basin have become again a fertile crossroads for the interplay of Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern (including northern African) literary traditions and for the pursuit of transnational agendas. My article confronts pre-1989 literary works, which described the Mediterranean as the focal point of nationalistic and political superpower conflicts, with post-1989 literary works that have attempted to mend the former ideological divides, emphasizing transnational messages and concerns. My examples are taken especially from the eastern and southern flanks of the Mediterranean basin, emphasizing their role in creating new formal hybrids and pluralizing national cultures.

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