Contesting the classroom : reimagining education in Moroccan and Algerian literatures / Erin Twohig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twohig, Erin, author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures.

Contemporary French and francophone cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moroccan fiction (French)--History and criticism.

Moroccan fiction (French).

Algerian fiction (French)--History and criticism.

Algerian fiction (French).

Arabic fiction--Morocco--History and criticism.

Arabic fiction.

Arabic fiction--Algeria--History and criticism.

Education in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Summary:

<i>Contesting the Classroom</i> is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a pluralistic and inclusive space, often at odds with the narrow nationalist vision of postcolonial identity. Yet when authors wrote <i>about</i> the school, they also had to consider whether their work would be taught <i>in</i> schools. As this book's original research on the teaching of literature shows, Moroccan and Algerian schools have largely failed to promote the works of local authors in public school curricula. This situation has dramatically altered literary portraits of education: novels marginalized in the public education system must creatively reimagine what pedagogy looks like and where it can take place. In illuminating a literary corpus neglected by political scientists and sociologists, <i>Contesting the Classroom</i> shows that novels about the school are an important source of counter-narrative about education and national identity. At the same time, by demonstrating how education has influenced writing styles, this work reframes the classroom as a necessary cultural context for scholars of postcolonial literature.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Troubling Memories of Colonialism

2. Decolonizing the Classroom

3. Education and Violence in the Black Decade

4. Resistance in a Minority Language

5. Satirizing Education in Crisis

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78962-957-8

1-78962-437-1