Literature and development in North Africa
Subtitle: the modernizing mission
By: by Perri Giovannucci.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780415958189
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Africa, North -- History and criticism.; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; North African literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and globalization -- Africa, North.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
Table of contents: value: Acknowledgments; value: Introduction; value: Modernization and its discontents; value: North Africa and the anti-colonial critics: Fanon, Memmi, Sartre, Camus; value: Camus, Djebar, and the 'non-color' of nonviolence; value: Paris on the Nile, Egypt on the plantation: development after Muhammad Ali; value: Letters of a lost generation: Alhadeff, Aciman, Said, Durrell, Mahfouz; value: The radical surgery of a woman doctor : Nawal el Saadawi; value: Conclusion.