Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf’s Texts

The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book works on the interface between literature, culture, and discourse. It is entirely devoted to the reading of some of Zafzaf’s novels that came out in the early 1970s and in the late 1980s, and attempts to chart the trajectory of the aesthetic imaginary of an exceptional writing experience that marked out the literary and cultural landscape in Morocco and in the Arab world for long. Zafzaf and his writings are associated with aspects of the country's social contradictions, cultural transition, and political transformations, expressed through various aesthetic patterns that translate the crisis of the intellectual within a society weighed down by poverty, political instability, social conflict, and cultural disintegration. Given the relative scarcity of resources that are written in English about the Moroccan novel of Arabic expression, this work is an attempt to theorize and approach in an interdisciplinary manner a set of narratives that have not been previously explored in western academia. Using postcolonial discourse as approach and a metaphor of reading, it draws attention to the often-neglected texts in Moroccan literature of Arabic expression and explores their aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications that rethink and disturb canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco. This book will be adopted in the now burgeoning fields of the Humanities, and will provide useful resources for courses about Moroccan Literature and culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-07-28
Mått160 x 228 x 20 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor166
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793645975

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ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Postcolonial Malaise in Narration and the Construction of Narrative Imaginary 1.Reflections on Narrative Development and the Enactment of Gender in Ar?ifah wa Judran [Sidewalks and Walls] (1974) 2.Rural Peripheries in Aborted Dreams and unterminated Desires: Human Tragedy, Coercive Power, and Social Coercion in Qobur fi al-ma? [Graves in the Water] (1978) Part II: Narration through Episodes from the Margin: The Negotiation of Marginality and the Formation of Marginal Identities 3.Contested Terrains of Marginality Negotiated: Reinventing the Underground in Mu?awalat ‘Aysh [Attempt to Live] (1985)4.Textual Gates Reopened: Marginality across the Boundaries of Space, Class, and Gender in Bay?at Adik [The Rooster’s Egg] (1984)Part III: Random Strings of Encounter (Re)Imagined: Narrative Building and Characterization Remapped 5.Narrative Strings Unlaced: Character building through Narrative Encounters in Al-af‘a wa al-Ba?r [The Viper and the Sea] (1979)

Lhoussain Simour brings a depth and breadth of knowledge about Moroccan fiction to his study of the works of Mohamed Zafzaf. Too often, Arabic language writing is passed over in English language scholarship on Morocco and this study demonstrates the vibrancy of writing in Arabic, especially the complex interplay of aesthetics and politics in fictional writing. The chapters of the book trace Zafzaf’s novelistic trajectory, and offer a thorough exploration of Moroccan literary history as well as its dynamic literary scenes, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. I learned a great deal from Simour’s study and recommend it.