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Title Vitality And Dynamism : Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition / ed. by Youness Elbousty, Kirstin Bratt, Devin Stewart
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (196 p.)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Vitality of Tradition -- Chapter 1 How the West Was Won: The Arab Conqueror and the Serene Amazigh in Driss Chraïbi's La Mère du printemps -- Chapter 2 Cultural Encounter in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature of English Expression -- Chapter 3 Intersections: Amazigh (Berber) Literary Space -- Chapter 4 Writing in the Feminine: The Emerging Voices of Francophone Moroccan Women Writers -- Chapter 5 Tactile Labyrinths and Sacred Interiors: Spatial Practices and Political Choices in Abdelmajid Ben Jalloun's Fí al-Tufúla and Ahmed Sefrioui's La boîte à merveilles -- Chapter 6 Monstrous Offspring: Disturbing Bodies in Feminine Moroccan Francophone Literature -- Chapter 7 Hegemonic Discourse in Orientalists' Translations of Moroccan Culture -- Chapter 8 The Countercultural, Liberal Voice of Moroccan Mohamed Choukri and Its Affinities with the American Beats -- Chapter 9 Khatibi: A Sociologist in Literature -- Chapter 10 Emigration and Quest for Identity in Laila Lalami's Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits, Akbib's 'The Lost Generation,' and Fandi's Alien ... Arab ... and Maybe Illegal in America -- About the Authors
Summary "Anti-colonial literature is not necessarily 'combat literature' as Fanon and Déjeux have both suggested in their own writings. While it is often combative, there is also anti-colonial literature that emphasizes the human and the humane rather than the oppositional and contentious; it cannot be fair to label all anti-colonial literature as combative, even if one were to expand the definition of "combat" to include peaceful struggles against oppression or dehumanization. This book suggests that the relationship between the West and the rest of the world has been imagined as a relationship of Self (the West) to Other (the rest of the world), ordered and bordered geographically by the whims of Europeans and creating a Center-Periphery paradigm. These invented boundaries of humanity serve to separate geographical sites, but more, they serve to enclose the Empire and exoticize other cultures. Boundaries are often spatial, but more often, they are related to relationships and colonialization."
Analysis post-colonial literature, Literature, Morocco, Postcolonialism, religion
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Subject English literature -- History and criticism -- Morocco
Language and culture -- Morocco
HISTORY / Africa / North.
Form Electronic book
Author Bentahar, Ziad, contributor.
Boutob, Ilham, contributor.
Bratt, Kirstin Ruth, contributor.
Bratt, Kirstin, editor.
Campbell, Ian, contributor.
Cherribi, Sam, contributor.
Elbousty, Youness, editor.
Elkouche, Mohamed, contributor.
Hachad, Naima, contributor.
Khannous, Touria, contributor.
Maghnougi, Naima El, contributor.
Merolla, Daniela, contributor.
Pesce, Matthew, contributor.
Stewart, Devin, editor.
Younssi, Anouar El, contributor.
ISBN 9789400601857
9400601859