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The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf's Texts
The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies
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2022
Summary
This book works on the interface between literature, culture, and discourse. It is entirely devoted to the reading of some of Zafzāf’s novels that came out in the early 1970s and in the late 1980s, and attempts to chart the trajectory of the aesthetic imaginary of an exceptional writing experience that marked out the literary and cultural landscape in Morocco and in the Arab world for long. Zafzāf and his writings are associated with aspects of the country's social contradictions, cultural transition, and political transformations, expressed through various aesthetic patterns that translate the crisis of the intellectual within a society weighed down by poverty, political instability, social conflict, and cultural disintegration. Given the relative scarcity of resources that are written in English about the Moroccan novel of Arabic expression, this work is an attempt to theorize and approach in an interdisciplinary manner a set of narratives that have not been previously explored in western academia. Using postcolonial discourse as approach and a metaphor of reading, it draws attention to the often-neglected texts in Moroccan literature of Arabic expression and explores their aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications that rethink and disturb canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco. This book will be adopted in the now burgeoning fields of the Humanities, and will provide useful resources for courses about Moroccan Literature and culture.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4597-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4598-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Reflections on Narrative Development and the Enactment of Gender in Arṣifah wa Judrān [Sidewalks an No access
Rural Peripheries in Aborted Dreams and Unterminated Desires: No access
Contested Terrains of Marginality Negotiated No access
Textual Gates Reopened No access
Narrative Strings Unlaced No access
Narration, Characterization, and the Construction of the Bohemian Imaginary in A-Thaʿlab a-ladi No access
Upward Mobility Conceptualized, Temporal Shifts and Spatial Boundaries Remapped No access
