Experimental nations, or, The invention of the Maghreb / Réda Bensmaïa ; translated by Alyson Waters.

By:

Bensmaïa, Réda

Contributor(s):

Waters, Alyson, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Translation/transnationPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400825646
1400825644
9780691089362
0691089361
9780691089379
069108937X

Other title:

Experimental nations
Invention of the Maghreb

Uniform titles:

Nations expérimentales. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experimental nations, or, The invention of the Maghreb.DDC classification:

840.9/961 22

LOC classification:

PQ3988.5.N6 B46613 2003eb

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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.

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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.

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