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1 online resource (xii, 215 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Translation/transnation
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Translation/transnation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : is an "experimental" nation possible? -- Nations of writers -- Cities of writers -- Nabile farès, or how to become "minoritarian" -- Postcolonial nations : political or poetic allegories? (On Tahar Djaout's L'invention du désert) -- (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. |
| Summary |
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 Experimental Nations, Reda Bensmaia argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations worth considering for their innovative style or language but as "ethnographic" texts and to appraise them only against the "French literary canon." He casts fresh light on the original literary strateg. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
North African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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North African literature (French) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Waters, Alyson, 1955-
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| Added Title |
Nations expérimentales. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002035667
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Experimental nations |
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Invention of the Maghreb |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bensmaïa, Réda. Nations expérimentales. English. Experimental nations, or, The invention of the Maghreb. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 0691089361 9780691089362 (DLC) 2002074906 (OCoLC)49991567 |
| ISBN |
9781400825646 (electronic book) |
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1400825644 (electronic book) |
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9780691089362 (alkaline paper) |
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0691089361 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691089379 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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069108937X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691089361 (alkaline paper) |
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069108937X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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