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Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization / Olivia C. Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Olivia C., 1980- author.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- North African literature.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Literature and the conflict.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Colonies in literature.
- Palestine--In literature.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Palestine as metaphor
- Souffles-Anfas : Palestine and the decolonization of culture
- Transcolonial hospitality : Kateb Yacine's experiments in popular theater
- The transcolonial exotic : allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian trilogy
- Portrait of an Arab Jew : Albert Memmi and the politics of indigeneity
- Abrahamic tongues : Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida
- Edmond Amran el Maleh and the cause of the other
- Epilogue : Palestine and the Syrian intifada.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804796859
- 0804796858
- OCLC:
- 945873349
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