The influence peddlers / Hédi Kaddour ; Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaddour, Hédi, author.

Contributor:

Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters book.

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture conflict--Fiction.

Culture conflict.

Nineteen twenties--Fiction.

Nineteen twenties.

Tunisia--History--20th century--Fiction.

Tunisia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour's award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural collisions are the inevitable result in Hédi Kaddour's best-selling novel of French colonial rule and its persisting legacy of human chaos and cultural tragedy. In this commanding novel, the author plumbs the contradictions of colonialism and the impact on individual lives. With insight, humor, and a profound sense of irony he introduces Les Prépondérants-"The Preponderants," an unofficial group of peddlers of influence who operate at every level of colonial society. American "Hollywood" values, Islamic and secular politics, French manners-none of them escapes Kaddour's skewering wit. Filled with rich irony and wonderful characters, this is a novel that grapples forcefully with colonial relations in the Arabic, North African, and French worlds, while also journeying into the simmering Europe and United States of the Roaring Twenties.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PART I . THE SHOCK: NAHBÈS, NORTH AFRICA, THE EARLY 1920S

1. A Tree in the Wind

2. The Betrayal

3. Honored Guests

4. And . . . Action!

5. A Quintal and a Half

6. The Old Woman and the Eggs

7. The Cow of Satan

8. A Sort of Tacit Agreement

9. At a Nice School

10. A Well-Planned Marriage

11. The Story of the Ice

12. A Lovely Summer

13. An Eye on Everything

14. Two Hatreds

15. At the Market

16. A Smiling Wife

17. Troubled Times

18. Big Problems

PART II . THE GREAT VOYAGE: WINTER 1922-SPRING 1923

19. The Jugurtha

20. Nights of Dreams

21. The Hand

22. Crossroads of Pain

23. Brother and Sister

24. A Night at Gabrielle's

25. A Taste for Wealth

26. Great Murmurings

27. A Liberated Country

28. The Suitor

29. Kinder des Vaterlands

30. For an Orchard

31. In an Occupied Country

32. The Smile on a Grilled Sheep's Head

33. Otto

34. Fascination

35. The Return

PART III. ONE YEAR LATER: NAHBÈS, JUNE 1924

36. A True Fox

37. Scaradère

38. A Mass Uprising

39. The Prépondérants

40. The Storm

41. The Hunt

42. An Edifying Spectacle

43. The Face

44. Ganthier's Party

45. The Blaster

46. The Barley Wind

47. Equal Pay for Equal Work

48. A Complex Operation

49. Beasts from Hell

Glossary

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-23157-1

OCLC:

1003194484