ISBN:
9789004378940
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 189 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ricci, Cristián H New voices of Muslim North-African migrants in Europe
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration in literature
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European literature Moroccan authors
;
History and criticism
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European literature Muslim authors
;
History and criticism
;
Immigrants in literature
;
African diaspora in literature
;
Identity (Psychology) in literature
;
Literature and culture
;
Morocco In literature
Abstract:
Introduction: A Transmodern-Postcolonial Approach to Afro-European Literature -- Memories of al-Andalus: between "Paterista" and Testimonial Poetry -- Negotiating Afro-Iberian Identity in Moroccan and Riffian Literature -- Marginal Sexualities in/from Morocco and France -- Writing the Riff (Morocco) from the Netherlands and Belgium -- Moroccan Displacements through History in the Narrative of Laila Lalami -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
"New voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristián H. Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e. Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 167 - 184
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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