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Record Nr.

UNINA9910553080103321

Autore

Pardey Charlotte <1986->

Titolo

Oscillating Bodies : Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, 2022

ISBN

9783752005028

3752005025

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Literaturen im Kontext. arabisch – persisch – türkisch

Disciplina

490

Soggetti

Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Tunisia History

Tunisia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the country's independence in 1956 until the revolutionary upheavals of 2010/2011. It appears as a society that oscillates between the poles of tradition and modernity as well as various cultural influences. Oscillating Bodies also forms and can be read as an introduction to the Tunisian novel that is otherwise ignored by international literary studies.