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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790746503321

Autore

Esposito Claudia

Titolo

The narrative mediterranean : beyond France and the Maghreb / / Claudia Esposito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-2125-8

0-7391-6822-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

Disciplina

840.9/96

Soggetti

North African literature (French) - History and criticism

Postcolonialism in literature

France Foreign relations Africa, North

Africa, North Foreign relations France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations and Transliterations; Introduction; I: Humanism and History; Chapter One: A Humanism of the Sun; Chapter Two: Of Chronological Others and Alternative Histories; II: Beyond the Binary; Chapter Three: Nina Bouraoui: On Gender; Chapter Four: Shifting Geographies; III: Crossing the Straits and Moving the Center; Chapter Five: (E)migration, Imagination, and Dissonance; Chapter Six: Addio Farança: Into the Twenty-First Century with Abdelmalek Smari, Mohsen Melliti, and Amara Lakhous; Conclusion: Reflections on a Future; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting identity of the modern Mediterranean. A transnational rather than binary interpretive framework transcends a colonial and postcolonial bind in which France is the dominant point of reference. While focusing on works in French, this book also examines Maghrebi authors who write in Italian.