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

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

This book engages with recent philosophical interventions into democracy, equality, and human rights to demonstrate their relevance to the field of Francophone Postcolonial Studies. The book explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vallury, Rajeshwari S. (Rajeshwari Suryamohan) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2017.
Series:Reinventing critical theory
Subjects:
Algerian fiction (French) > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Algeria.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Politics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Algerian fiction (French)
Literature and society
Nationalism in literature
Politics in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Algeria
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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 désert
  • The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison
  • Paradises Lost But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction
  • The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu
  • Conclustion.

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