Author: Michael K. Walonen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134787871 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 176
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In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Alfred Chester during the end of the colonial era and the earliest days of post-independence. The conceptualizations of space in these authors' descriptions of Tangier, Walonen shows, share common components: an attention to the transformative potential of the conflict sweeping the region; a record of the power relations that divided space along lines of gender and ethnicity, including the spatial impact of the widespread sexual commerce between Westerners and natives; a vision of the Maghreb as a land that can be dominated or imposed on as a kind of frontier space; an expression of anxieties about the specters of Cold War antagonisms; and an embrace of the underlying logic of the market to the culture of the Maghreb. Counterbalancing the depictions of Tangier by Westerners who sought to reconcile their nostalgia for the colonial order with their support of native demands for independent governance is Walonen's extended analysis of the contrasting sense of place found in the writings of native Moroccan authors such as Mohammed Choukri, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Anouar Majid. In its focus on Tangier and the larger Maghreb as a lived environment situated at a particular spatial and temporal crossroads, Walonen's study makes an important contribution to the fields of urban, transatlantic, and postcolonial studies.
Author: Ralph M. Coury Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433103995 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 216
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Writing Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the literary imagination; what is the nature of the inter-textual output produced through Paul Bowles' translations of the oral tales of a circle of uneducated storytellers (including Mohammed Mrabet and Larbi Layachi) and the text (For Bread Alone) brought to Bowles by the literate Mohamed Choukri; how do academics, artists, and writers who have been based in the city or who have written about it assess the various socio-economic, political, and cultural factors that have shaped its cultural production and the relationship of this production to the celebrated hybrid aspects of its identity; does the success of the literature of Tangier reflect a truly new multicultural cosmopolitanism, or does it stem from the fact that this literature is congenial to Westerners, that it is understood in terms that they themselves define, and that much of it (including productions in Arabic prepared with the expectation of translation) has even been «written to measure» for them?
Author: Michael R. Griffiths Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134801246 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 413
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From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Imperial practices throughout the world have fomented a veritable culture of memory. The essays in this volume show how the legacy of colonialism’s attempt to transform the mode of life of colonized peoples has been central to the largely unequal phenomenon of globalization.
Author: Jacek Mydla Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331961049X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 199
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This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities. The book is divided into two major parts, the first of which comprises literary representations of multiculturalism and discussions of its impasses and impacts in fictional circumstances. In turn, the second part primarily focuses on culture at large and real-life consequences. Taken together, the two complementary parts offer an illuminating and well-rounded overview of representations of multiculturalism in literature and contemporary culture from a variety of critical perspectives.
Author: Claudio Minca Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786730170 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 320
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Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by travellers, explorers, writers and artists. It is just these images and imaginings that are now being reconstructed for nostalgic consumption. In Moroccan Dreams, Claudio Minca examines this aestheticised re-enactment of the colonial, exploring the ways in which Moroccans themselves have become complicit in the re-writing of their homes and lives. Richly illustrated, the book provides a fascinating journey that will engage and delight all those enamoured of Morocco and its extraordinary geographies.
Author: Jan-Ola Östman Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 902721090X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 300
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This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop
Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351369830 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 555
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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and marginalised people from over twenty different languages. The contributions will make visible the role of translation in promoting and enabling social change, in promoting equality, in fighting discrimination, in supporting human rights, and in challenging autocracy and injustice across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, the US and Europe. With a substantial introduction, thirty-one chapters, and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all activists, translators, students and researchers of translation and activism within translation and interpreting studies.
Author: Stacey A. Suver Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa, North Languages : en Pages :
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ABSTRACT: Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangier's status as an international city, its sizable Arab population, and its location situated among the violence of Morocco's bid for independence all undoubtedly helped to inspire the radical reinvention of literature undertaken by its American literary residents. The works of the period reveal men and women struggling to come to terms with who they are, what writing is, and what their American identity means to them. One of the earliest and most prominent of the American expatriates in Tangier, Paul Bowles, embarked on a quest to rid himself of American national and cultural identity by adopting the transnational identity of the Tangerino. Like Bowles, his characters don't try to become Moroccan citizens outright or wholly adopt Tanjawi culture; instead, they attempt to escape their American national identity by becoming residents of the international zone and embracing liminal Tangerino identities, products of both American and Moroccan nationalities and incorporating cultural aspects from each. William S. Burroughs has said in interviews and letters that he made the decision to live in Tangier after reading Bowles' Let It Come Down. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1958, he expressed both his admiration for the transformative potential of revolutionary violence and his dismay that this potential went unrealized in Morocco. Jane Bowles and Brion Gysin both explore differing ways in which to "go native" and, ultimately, whether such an endeavor pays off in the end. Both her short work and his novel, The Process, each in some way reflects, antagonizes or responds to the influence of the international zone and the notion that Tangier represents (or potentially represents) a place set apart from the American influence. Finally, Alfred Chester and John Hopkins both wrote memoirs in Morocco during the 1960s and 1970s. Their reports reveal a concerted effort to distance themselves from the old style colonialism of the previous generation of expatriates as well as well as their ultimate inability to do so.
Author: Pavlina Radia Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004314431 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 252
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This book traces the artistic trajectories of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, examining their literary representations of the nomadic ethic pervading the twentieth-century expatriate movements in and out of America. The book argues that these authors contribute to the nomadic aesthetic of American modernism: its pastoral ideographies, (post)colonial ecologies, as well as regional and transcultural varieties. Mapping the pastoral moment in different temporalities and spaces (Barnes representing the 1920s expatriation in Europe while Bowles comments on the 1940s exodus to Mexico and North Africa), this book suggests that Barnes and Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.
Author: Michael K. Walonen
Author: Ralph M. Coury
Author: Michael R. Griffiths
Author: Sarah Daw
Author: Jacek Mydla
Author: Claudio Minca
Author: Jan-Ola Östman
Author: Rebecca Ruth Gould
Author: Stacey A. Suver
Author: Pavlina Radia