Maghrebian Mosaic : : A Literature in Transition / / ed. by Mildred Mortimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Abu-Haidar, Farida,; Ahmad, Fawzia,; Carjuzaa, Gilles,; Hamil, Mustapha,; Helm, Yolande,; Hippolyte, Jean-Louis,; Ibnlfassi, Laïla,; Ireland, Susan,; Lee, Sonia,; Manopoulos, Monique,; McConnell, Daphne,; McNeece, Lucy Stone,; Mortimer, Mildred,; Naudin, Marie,; Rice, Laura,; Serrano, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Mortimer, Mildred,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)

Albert Memmi published the first anthology of francophone Maghrebian literature, he expressed his unhappy belief that francophone writing would quickly be eclipsed by Arabic. To the contrary, this volume demonstrates that the francophone writing of North Africa remains vibrant and prolific. Two distinct periods are evident in contemporary Maghrebian letters, producing the anticolonial works appearing prior to independence and the subsequent critiques of postcolonial society. This collection examines themes common to both periods: identity, conflicts between tradition and modernity, women's place in society, and the lives of North African immigrants living in France. Throughout, the uneasy and ambiguous relationship between the Maghrebian writer and the French language is evident, as is the ongoing political nature of North African literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE The Identity Quest -- 1 Inscribing a Maghrebian Identity in French -- 2 Translation and the Interlingual Text in the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra -- 3 Modernity Through Tradition in the Contemporary Algerian Novel: Elements Toward a Global Reflection -- 4 Rewriting Identity and History: The Sliding Barre(s) in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sacred Night -- 5 Rescripting Modernity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and the Archaeology of Signs -- PART TWO Interior Landscapes -- 6 Mohammed Dib and Albert Camus’s Encounters with the Algerian Landscape -- 7 The Maghreb of the Mind in Mustapha Tlili, Brick Oussaïd, and Malika Mokeddem -- 8 The Absence of the Self: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s La Prière de l’absent -- PART THREE Women’s Voice, Women’s Vision -- 9 Voices of Resistance in Contemporary Algerian Women’s Writing -- 10 Malika Mokeddem: A New and Resonant Voice in Francophone Algerian Literature -- 11 Reappropriating the Gaze in Assia Djebar’s Fiction and Film -- 12 Hélé Béji’s Gaze -- 13 Tunisian Women Novelists and Postmodern Tunis -- PART FOUR Beur Fiction: North African Immigrants in France -- 14 Family, History, and Cultural Identity in the Beur Novel -- 15 De-centering Language Structures in Akli Tadjer’s Les A.N.I. du Tassili -- 16 Storytelling on the Run in Leïla Sebbar’s She’razade -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book