Article Title
Writing Space in Clandestine-Crossing Literature
Abstract
Drawing on Youssouf Amine Elalamy’s Les Clandestins and Mahi Binebine’s Cannibales, this article examines how space and time shape literary representations of clandestine Mediterranean crossings. It argues that the narratives rely on a spatial triad (the place of origin, the maritime passage, and the fantasized ‘elsewhere’) and that threshold moments (night/dawn, waiting/departure) amplify the tragic dimension. By linking ‘here/there’ configurations to migrants’ psychology—nostalgia, fear, and projection toward a European Eldorado—the analysis highlights a poetics of border, displacement, and loss.
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