Bensmaïa / Bensmaia Experimental Nations

Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2564-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 232 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bensmaïa, Réda

Bensmaia, Reda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION: Is an "Experimental" Nation Possible? 1
1: Nations of Writers 11
1.Cultural "Terrain" 11
2.New Geolinguistics 14
2: Cities of Writers 27
1.The Imaginary of the Medina in Francophone Literature from the Maghreb 27
2.Algiers/Paris, or the City as a "Site of Memory ": Merzak Allouache's Salut Cousin 38
3: Nabile Farès, or How to Become "Minoritarian" 47
4: Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? (On Tahar Djaout's L'invention du désert )67
5: (Hi)stories of Expatriation: Virtual Countries 83
1.Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua: Introduction to the Cinematic Fragment 83
6: Multilingualism and National "Traits" 99
1."Translating or Whiting Out Language": On Khatibi's Amour Bilingue 99
2.On Khatibi's Notion of the "Professional Traveler" 124
3.Writing Metafiction: On Khatibi's Le livre du sang 135
7: The Cartography of the Nation: Mouloud Feraoun's Le fils du pauvre Revisited 149
8: By Way of a Conclusion 159
APPENDIX: Le Dépays: On Chris Marker's Lettre de Sibéie (1957)165
NOTES 171
INDEX NOMINUM 205
INDEX REUM 209

Über Autor(innen)

Réda Bensmaïa is University Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The Barthes Effect, The Year of Passages, and a novel entitled Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire.