The book explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.
The book explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.
Rajeshwari S. Vallury is Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of French at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of 'Surfacing' the Politics of Desire: Literature, Feminism, and Myth (2008)
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Dissonant Algeria Part I: Thinking Politics and Aesthetics 1. Democracy, Citizenship, and Postcolonial Politics 2. Metaphor, Or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics 3. The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction Part II: Reading Aesthetics and Politics 4. Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du desert 5. The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison 6. Paradises Lost, But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction 7. The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu Conclusion: "For God's Sake, Open the Universal a Little More!" Index
Introduction: Dissonant Algeria Part I: Thinking Politics and Aesthetics 1. Democracy, Citizenship, and Postcolonial Politics 2. Metaphor, Or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics 3. The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction Part II: Reading Aesthetics and Politics 4. Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du desert 5. The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison 6. Paradises Lost, But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction 7. The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu Conclusion: "For God's Sake, Open the Universal a Little More!" Index
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