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Author Mortimer, Mildred

Title Maghrebian Mosiac : a Literature in Transition
Published Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Contents Title Page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Introduction ; Part 1- The Identity Quest ; Chapter 1- Inscribing a Maghrebian Identity in French; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2- Translation and the Interlingual Tex tin the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3- Modernity Through Tradition in the Contemporary Algerian Novel: Elements Toward a Global Reflection; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 4- Rewriting Identity and History: The Sliding Barre(s) in TaharBen Jelloun's The Sacred Night; The Persistence of the Past; Social Reality Versus Fictive Reality; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited
Chapter 5- Rescripting Modernity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and the Archaeology of SignsNotes; Works Cited; Part 2- Interior Landscapes ; Chapter 6- Mohammed Dib and Albert Camus's Encounters with the Algerian Landscape; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7- The Maghreb of the Mind in Mustapha Tlili, Brick Oussaïd, and Malika Mokeddem; Tlili's Lion Mountain: Visions of the Past, Voices of the Present; Brick Oussaïd's Mountains Forgotten by God:Drought as a Human Condition; Malika Mokeddem: Metaphysician Without Borders; Works Cited
Chapter 8- The Absence of the Self: Tahar Ben Jelloun'sLa Prière de l'absentNotes; Works Cited; Part 3- Women's Voice, Women's Vision ; Chapter 9- Voices of Resistance in Contemporary Algerian Women's Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 10- Malika Mokeddem: A New and Resonant Voicein Francophone Algerian Literature; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11- Reappropriating the Gazein Assia Djebar's Fiction and Film; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12- Hélé Béji's Gaze; Works Cited; Chapter 13- Tunisian Women Novelists and Postmodern Tunis; Notes; Works Cited
Part 4- Beur Fiction: North African Immigrants in FranceChapter 14- Family, History, and Cultural Identity in the Beur Novel; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 15- De-centering Language Structures in Akli Tadjer's Les A.N.I. du Tassili; Works Cited; Notes; Chapter 16- Storytelling on the Runin Leïla Sebbar's She'razade; Notes; Works Cited; Afterword; Note; Selected Bibliography; The Contributors; Index; About the Book
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Subject North African literature (French) -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
North African literature (French)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781626373808
1626373809