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

The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies

Lhoussain Simour (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

166 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4597-5 (ISBN)

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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 Zafzāf’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. Zafzāf 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.

Lhoussain Simour is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco, and senior research associate at the University of Gibraltar.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Postcolonial Malaise in Narration and the Construction of Narrative Imaginary

Reflections on Narrative Development and the Enactment of Gender in Arṣifah wa Judrān [Sidewalks and Walls] (1974)
Rural Peripheries in Aborted Dreams and unterminated Desires: Human Tragedy, Coercive Power, and Social Coercion in Qobūr fī al-māʾ [Graves in the Water] (1978)

Part II: Narration through Episodes from the Margin: The Negotiation of Marginality and the Formation of Marginal Identities

Contested Terrains of Marginality Negotiated: Reinventing the Underground in Muḥāwalat ‘Aysh [Attempt to Live] (1985)
Textual Gates Reopened: Marginality across the Boundaries of Space, Class, and Gender in Bayḍat Adīk [The Rooster’s Egg] (1984)

Part III: Random Strings of Encounter (Re)Imagined: Narrative Building and Characterization Remapped

Narrative Strings Unlaced: Character building through Narrative Encounters in Al-af‘ā wa al-Baḥr [The Viper and the Sea] (1979)
Narration, Characterization and the Construction of the Bohemian Imaginary in A-Thaʿlab a-ladī ya ẓhar wa-yakhtafī [The Elusive Fox] (1989)

Part IV: Of Women and Roses: Pleasures of Encounter in Al-Marʾa wa al-warda [The Woman and the Rose] (1972)

Upward Mobility Conceptualized, Temporal Shifts and Spatial Boundaries Remapped: The Narrative Construction in Al-Marʾa wa al-warda

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-4597-3 / 1793645973
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4597-5 / 9781793645975
Zustand	Neuware