Casablanca Story /
"One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-cl...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges. In The Belles of Casablanca, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction. Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is no better than they are"-- |
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Notas: | Originally published as La Belle de Casa in French 2018 Actes Sud. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (166 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780253058805 |