Metaphors of invention and dissension : aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel /

Vallury, Rajeshwari S.

Metaphors of invention and dissension : aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel / Rajeshwari S. Vallury. - 1 online resource (282 pages). - Reinventing critical theory . - Reinventing critical theory. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Thinking Politics and Aesthetics. Metaphor, Or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics -- The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction -- Reading Aesthetics and Politics. Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du desert -- The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier ete de la raison -- Paradises Lost But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve detourne and La malediction -- The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu -- Conclustion.

9781786603180 (e-book)


Algerian fiction (French)--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Algeria.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.


Electronic books.

PQ3988.5.A5 / V35 2017

843/.91409965