CF&FS Special Issue: The Contemporary Roman Maghrébin: Aesthetics, Politics, Production 2000-2015 (original) (raw)
CONTENTS 1 Editors’ Introduction Articles 8 Heteroglossia and the Poetics of the Roman Maghrébin Hoda El-Shakry 18 The Novel in Morocco as Mirror of a Changing Society Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla 27 Le Roman Maghrébin en Berbère Mohand Akli Salhi and Nabila Sadi 37 The Critical Pulse of the Contre-enquête: Kamel Daoud on the Maghrebi Novel in French Lia Brozgal 38 Figure of an Anartist: Keeping Local Francophone Literature Engaged with Mustapha Benfodil’s Literature-action Alexandra Gueydan-Turek 58 “On peut apprendre de la littérature à se méfier”: Writing and Doubt in the Contemporary Algerian Novel Jane Hiddleston 67 Le Nouveau roman algérien : une réinscription de la thèse de Khatibi Lynda-Nawel Tebbani 76 L’Effet Barzakh Corbin Treacy 85 The Maghreb’s New Publishing House: les éditions barzakh and the Stakes of Localized Publishing Mary Anne Lewis 94 Old Stories, New Histories: The Past in the Francophone Tunisian Novel Debbie Barnard 102 For a Transcolonial Reading of the Contemporary Algerian Novel Olivia C. Harrison 111 Between Men: Homosocial Desire and the Dynamics of Masculinity in the Novels of Rachid O. And Abdellah Taïa Alessandro Badin 122 L’Espace littéraire de Mahi Binebine: pour une esthétique du désenchantement social Afaf Zaid 131 Clandestine Emigration as Twenty-First Century Meme in the Roman Maghrébin Meg Furniss Weisberg 141 The Roman Maghrébin in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Nina Wardleworth Fiction 150 james joyce Salim Bachi Dossier/Gallery 161 Un Artiste autodidacte Robert Albouker Œuvres la matrice du conte (2005–2006) les rois mages (2005–2006) mauvaise rencontre (2005–2006) valet de cœur (2005–2006) voodoo child (2005–2006) Abdel Mir 163 Editorial Assistants 164 Acknowledgments
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