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Subject(s)

• Arabic literature—Africa, North—History and criticism [Browse]
• North African literature (French)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Qurʼan as literature [Browse]

Summary note

"The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary criticism. Showing how the Qurʼan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʼanic model of narratology"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Poetics of piety -- 1. Existential Poiesis in Mahmud al-Mas'adi's Mawlid al-nisyan -- 2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano -- pt. II Ethics of embodiment -- 3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Tahir Wattar's Al-zilzal -- 4. Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia -- pt. III Genealogies of transmission -- 5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraibi's Le passe simple -- 6. Threads of Transmission in Muhammad Barrada's Lu'bat al-nisyan.

ISBN

• 9780823286379 ((electronic bk.))
• 0823286371 ((electronic bk.))
• 082328638X ((electronic bk.))
• 9780823286386 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1122747733