The narrative mediterranean : beyond France and the Maghreb / Claudia Esposito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esposito, Claudia.

Series:

After the empire.

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North African literature (French)--History and criticism.

North African literature (French).

Postcolonialism in literature.

France--Foreign relations--Africa, North.

France.

Africa, North--Foreign relations--France.

Africa, North.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting identity of the modern Mediterranean. A transnational rather than binary interpretive framework transcends a colonial and postcolonial bind in which France is the dominant point of reference. While focusing on works in French, this book also examines Maghrebi authors who write in Italian.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations and Transliterations; Introduction; I: Humanism and History; Chapter One: A Humanism of the Sun; Chapter Two: Of Chronological Others and Alternative Histories; II: Beyond the Binary; Chapter Three: Nina Bouraoui: On Gender; Chapter Four: Shifting Geographies; III: Crossing the Straits and Moving the Center; Chapter Five: (E)migration, Imagination, and Dissonance; Chapter Six: Addio Farança: Into the Twenty-First Century with Abdelmalek Smari, Mohsen Melliti, and Amara Lakhous; Conclusion: Reflections on a Future; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-2125-8

0-7391-6822-3

OCLC:

864743683