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Experimental nations, or, The invention of the Maghreb /

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bensmaïa, Réda
Otros Autores: Waters, Alyson, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Translation/transnation.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : is an "experimental" nation possible?
  • Nations of writers
  • Cities of writers
  • Nabile farès, or how to become "minoritarian"
  • Postcolonial nations : political or poetic allegories? (On Tahar Djaout's L'invention du désert)
  • (Hi)stories of expatriation : virtual countries
  • Multilingualism and national "traits"
  • The cartography of the nation : Mouloud Feraoun's Le fils du pauvre revisited
  • By way of a conclusion.