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The star, the cross, and the crescent : religions and conflicts in Francophone literature from the Arab world /

"The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Christian (Accad, Antaki, Chedid, Maalouf), Jewish (Albou, Cixous, El Maleh, Memmil, Muslim (Bachi, Benaissa, Benguigui, Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Boud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bourget, Carine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Edición:1st paperback ed.
Colección:After the empire.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: religion, politics, and literature in the Francophone Arab world. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Amin Maalouf's Les Croisades vues par les Arabes and Les échelles du Levant, Myriam Antaki's Les versets du pardon
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict beyond the Middle East: Albert Memmi, Edmond Amran El Maleh, Farid Boudjellal, and Karin Albou
  • The Lebanese Civil War: Andrée Chédid's La maison sans racines and Evelyne Accad's L'excisée
  • The Algerian Civil War: Rachid Boudjedra's Le FIS de la haine, Rachid Mimouni's De la barbarie en général et de l'intégrisme en particulier, and Une enfance algérienne
  • Islam and the French Republic: the affair of the Muslim headscarf in works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Amin Maalouf, Albert Memmi, Leïla Sebbar, and Yamina Benguigui
  • Portrait of a terrorist: Slimane Benaïssa and Salim Bachi's 9/11 novels
  • Conclusion: the politics of translation: Francophone literature from the Arab World in the U.S.