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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bensmaïa, Reda
Autres auteurs: Waters, Alyson, 1955-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Francés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : is an "experimental" nation possible?
  • Nations of writers
  • Cities of writers
  • Nabile fares, or how to become "minoritarian"
  • Postcolonial nations : political or poetic allegories? (On Tahar Djaout's L'invention du desert)
  • (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.