Introduction: The Vitality of Tradition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 9
4. Introduction: The Vitality of Tradition 11
5. Chapter 1 How the West Was Won: The Arab Conqueror and the Serene Amazigh in Driss Chraïbi’s La Mère du printemps 17
6. Chapter 2 Cultural Encounter in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature of English Expression 35
7. Chapter 3 Intersections: Amazigh (Berber) Literary Space 47
8. Chapter 4 Writing in the Feminine: The Emerging Voices of Francophone Moroccan Women Writers 73
9. Chapter 5 Tactile Labyrinths and Sacred Interiors: Spatial Practices and Political Choices in Abdelmajid Ben Jalloun’s Fí al-Tufúla and Ahmed Sefrioui’s La boîte à merveilles 95
10. Chapter 6 Monstrous Offspring: Disturbing Bodies in Feminine Moroccan Francophone Literature 115
11. Chapter 7 Hegemonic Discourse in Orientalists’ Translations of Moroccan Culture 137
12. Chapter 8 The Countercultural, Liberal Voice of Moroccan Mohamed Choukri and Its Affinities with the American Beats 157
13. Chapter 9 Khatibi: A Sociologist in Literature 177
14. Chapter 10 Emigration and Quest for Identity in Laila Lalami’s Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits, Akbib’s ‘The Lost Generation,’ and Fandi’s Alien … Arab … and Maybe Illegal in America 185
15. About the Authors 193