Metaphors of invention and dissension : aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel / Rajeshwari S. Vallury.

By: Vallury, Rajeshwari S. (Rajeshwari Suryamohan) [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Reinventing critical theoryPublisher: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Limited, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786603180 (e-book)Subject(s): Algerian fiction (French) -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Algeria | Postcolonialism in literature | Nationalism in literature | Politics in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metaphors of invention and dissension : aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel.DDC classification: 843/.91409965 LOC classification: PQ3988.5.A5 | V35 2017Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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