LEADER 04252nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457047903321 005 20211029190501.0 010 $a0-8232-4718-X 010 $a1-282-69902-4 010 $a9786612699023 010 $a0-8232-3799-0 010 $a0-8232-3050-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237999 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008099 035 $a(OCoLC)647876436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10365079 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439996 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288445 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439996 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10471015 035 $a(PQKB)11228318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239460 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14938 035 $a(DE-B1597)554986 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237999 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365079 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269902 035 $a(OCoLC)730040927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476686 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008099 100 $a20081023d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarratives of catastrophe$b[electronic resource] $eBoris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi /$fNasrin Qader 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3048-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Becoming-Survivor --$t2. Suffering Time --$t3. Shadowing the Storyteller --$t4. Un-limiting Thought --$t5. Figuring the Wine-Bearer --$tConclusion. Engendering Catastrophes --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aNarratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Qader's book begins by exploring the political implications of narrating catastrophic historical events. Through careful readings of singular literary texts on the genocide in Rwanda and on Tazmamart, a secret prison in Morocco under the reign of Hassan II, Qader shows how historical catastrophes enter language and how this language is marked by the catastrophe it recounts. Not satisfied with the extra-literary characterizations of catastrophe in terms of numbers, laws, and naming, she investigates the catastrophic in catastrophe, arguing that catastrophe is always an effect of language andthought,. The récit becomes a privileged site because the difficulties of thinking and speaking about catastrophe unfold through the very movements of storytelling.This book intervenes in important ways in the current scholarship in the field of African literatures. It shows the contributions of African literatures in elucidating theoretical problems for literary studies in general, such as storytelling's relationship to temporality, subjectivity, and thought. Moreover, it addresses the issue of storytelling, which is of central concern in the context of African literatures but still remains limited mostly to the distinction between the oral and the written. The notion of récit breaks with this duality by foregrounding the inaugural temporality of telling and of writing as repetition.The final chapters examine catastrophic turns within the philosophical traditions of the West and in Islamic thought, highlighting their interconnections and differences. 606 $aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDisasters in literature 606 $aStorytelling in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDisasters in literature. 615 0$aStorytelling in literature. 676 $a843/.9140996 700 $aQader$b Nasrin$01033494 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457047903321 996 $aNarratives of catastrophe$92452089 997 $aUNINA