02369nam 2200505 450 991082100830332120170830090351.01-78660-318-7(CKB)4340000000205446(MiAaPQ)EBC5061333(EXLCZ)99434000000020544620170828h20172017 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMetaphors of invention and dissension aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel /Rajeshwari S. ValluryLondon ;New York :Rowman & Littlefield International, Limited,[2017]©20171 online resource (282 pages)Reinventing critical theory1-78660-316-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Thinking Politics and Aesthetics. Metaphor, Or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics -- The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction -- Reading Aesthetics and Politics. Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du désert -- The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison -- Paradises Lost But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction -- The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu -- Conclustion.Reinventing critical theory.Algerian fiction (French)History and criticismLiterature and societyAlgeriaPostcolonialism in literatureNationalism in literaturePolitics in literatureAlgerian fiction (French)History and criticism.Literature and societyPostcolonialism in literature.Nationalism in literature.Politics in literature.843/.91409965Vallury Rajeshwari S(Rajeshwari Suryamohan),1654707MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821008303321Metaphors of invention and dissension4035837UNINA