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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810220203321

Autore

Harrison Olivia C. <1980->

Titolo

Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization / / Olivia C. Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8047-9685-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Cultural memory in the present

Classificazione

LB 53470

Disciplina

809/.933585694

Soggetti

North African literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Arab-Israeli conflict - Literature and the conflict

Colonies in literature

Palestine In literature

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

Introduction : Palestine as metaphor -- Souffles-Anfas : Palestine and the decolonization of culture -- Transcolonial hospitality : Kateb Yacine's experiments in popular theater -- The transcolonial exotic : allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian trilogy -- Portrait of an Arab Jew : Albert Memmi and the politics of indigeneity -- Abrahamic tongues : Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- Edmond Amran el Maleh and the cause of the other -- Epilogue : Palestine and the Syrian intifada.

Sommario/riassunto

Arguing that Palestine has come to signify the colonial, broadly conceived, in the decolonizing world, this book offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years.