Writing Tangier in the postcolonial transition
Subtitle: space and power in expatriate and North African literature
By: Michael K. Walonen
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781409433811; 9781409433828
Subjects: In literature; Expatriate authors; Space in literature; History and criticism; American Authors; English Authors; North African literature; Social conditions; Postcolonialism in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The cultural dynamics of expatriate Tangier; title: Paul Bowles, approaching the Maghreb; title: Always on the outside: Jane Bowles's vision of spatial impenetrability; title: "Don't ever fall for this inscrutable oriental shit like Bowles puts down": demystifying and remystifying the Maghreb in William Burroughs's Tangier writings; title: Brion Gysin's conflictive Maghreb; title: Alfred Chester: in search of belonging through mapping and sex; title: A counter-discourse of Tangerian space in the works of Tahar ben Jelloun and Anouar Majid.