Imagination Besieged: Coloniality, Violence, and Feminism in “Mediterranean” Art and Literature

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Federica Bueti

Imagination Besieged

Coloniality, Violence, and Feminism in “Mediterranean” Art and Literature

Federica Bueti

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Routledge
04 March 2025

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Routledge Focus on Literature

Imagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a Mediterranean defined by loss, displacement, dispossession, violence, and its refusal. Drawing links and connections between Calabria, Athens, Ramallah, and Beirut, the book grapples with the legacies of histories of violence, criminality, and colonialism that define not only the past, but very much the present of a Mediterranean stuck in cycles of crises and death. This atmosphere of impossibility and immobility, as the author argues, debilitates and distorts imagination as much as it forces those subjected to it to find ways to express their dissent, sometimes in tragic ways.

The book invites to read with the “Mediterranean” as a space where violence can be “felt” and “breathed” in the air. It looks and makes connections between the works of artists and writers who have problematised and challenged existing ahistorical representation of the “Mediterranean” as an exotic tourist destination. In the works and words of the artists and writers discussed, the Mediterranean appears not as a mythical place, but in all its ambiguousness, paradoxes, dissonances, and the distortions on the bodies, the landscape, the environment, and the imagination produced by this persistent and invisibilised systemic violence. At the same time, Imagination Besieged listen to the refusal of this violence in the lives and practices of those who have rejected familial belongings, narrow definitions of identity, and their continuous dispossession.

Each essay taps into the depth of the archive of the modern Mediterranean to bring into the present what this present seeks to conceal.

By: Federica Bueti
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781032795423
ISBN 10: 1032795425
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 04 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents 0. Like Stubborn Fires 1. Sciarra (After Angela) I 2. Sciarra (After Angela) II 3. Movement I: From Grief to Grievances 4. Movement II: Even When They Are Dangerous, Examine the Heart of Those Machines You Hate 5. Colorless Knickknacks (After Fanon) 6. Living With Ruins 7. The Silent Journeys of “The Poison Ships” 8. Imagination Besieged 9. Movements at Sea (Annotations on “Off You Paper Trail”, 2024) Bibliography Index

Federica Bueti is the author of Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences (Routledge, 2022). She is a lecturer of anthropology at UniCal, Reggio Calabria, Italy, and a Writing Tutor at the MA of Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has wide-ranging interests in decolonial, feminist, and Mediterranean literature, with particular focus on the decolonial feminist poetics and aesthetics of refusal.