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Experimental Nations, Or, the Invention of the Maghreb PDF

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by Reda Bensmaia| 2003| 228 pages| 0.6328125| English

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous question, and “For whom do we write? and ” strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, Reda Bensmaia argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations worth considering for their innovative style or language but as and “ethnographic and ” texts and to appraise them only against the and “French literary canon. and ” He casts fresh light on the original literary strategies many such writers have deployed to reappropriate their cultural heritage and and “reconfigure and ” their nations in the decades since colonialism.Tracing the move from the anticolonial, nationalist, and arabist literature of the early years to the relative cosmopolitanism and diversity of Maghrebi francophone literature today, Bensmaia draws on contemporary literary and postcolonial theory to and “deterritorialize and ” its study. Whether in Assia Djebar’s novels and films, Abdelkebir Khatabi’s prose poems or critical essays, or the novels of Nabile Fares, Abdelwahab Meddeb, or Mouloud Feraoun, he raises the veil that hides the intrinsic richness of these artists’ works from the eyes of even an attentive audience. Bensmaia shows us how such Maghrebi writers have opened their nations as territories to rediscover and stake out, to invent, while creating a new language. In presenting this masterful account of and “virtual and ” but veritable nations, he sets forth a new and fertile topography for francophone literature.

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Author:Reda Bensmaia
Publication Year:2003
ISBN:9780691089362
Pages:228
Language:English
File Size:0.6328125
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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