TY - BOOK AU - Vallury,Rajeshwari S. TI - Metaphors of invention and dissension: aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel T2 - Reinventing critical theory AV - PQ3988.5.A5 V35 2017 U1 - 843/.91409965 23 PY - 2017///] CY - London, New York PB - Rowman & Littlefield International, Limited KW - Algerian fiction (French) KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - Algeria KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Politics in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5061333 ER -