The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 (Routledge Studies in African Literature)

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The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.Drawing on works by Muḥammad Barrādah, ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī, Aḥmad al-Madīnī, and others, the book contends that the Moroccan experimental novel reflects an historic turning point and transitional cultural landscape. It further shows that the experimental novel laid the ground for a different vision of literature, an important feature of which was the intent to surpass the traditional realist model as executed by Moroccan novelist ʿAbdulkarīm Ghallāb (1919–2017) and Egyptian Nobel laureate Najīb Maḥfūẓ (1911–2006). This new vision of literature seeks to create new discursive spheres for the treatment of the social and the political.This book will be an important contribution to debates around Moroccan/Arabic/Maghrebi literature, as well as to the field of literary experimentalism more broadly.

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2025

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9781040262047

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9781032613666, 9781040262009, 9781032613703

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

12/03/24

Copyrighted By:

Anouar El Younssi, The right of Anouar El Younssi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

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English

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Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study

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