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FLORES, Andrea (FLORES-KHALIL, Andrea)The Arab Avant-Garde. Experiments in North African Art and Literature | | Lieu : WestPort (USA),
Éditeur : Greenwood,
Année : 2003
ISBN : 0-325-07129-2
Pages : 192 p.
Type : Essai
Langue : Anglais.
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Notations : Examines tensions between local and global, traditional and modern, authentic and general in the experimental art and literature of North Africa. Description:
All of the North African artists discussed in this book have been influenced substantially by their immersion in French culture. All rely on the French language as their preferred medium for artistic expression. As such, these creative individuals are enmeshed in one of the central dilemmas postcolonial "non-Western" artists who express themselves in non-indigenous languages can face: how to use essentially "foreign" means to express an "authentic" vision of their own cultural inheritances and imperatives? As Flores shows here, the dilemma is heightened further by tensions of religion and the politics and varieties of Islam. The solution these artists have found is one that questions the constraints imposed on their creativity by external western notions of progress and modernity and the internally driven rigid orthodoxy of fundamentalist Islamic notions of authenticity. The result is art, literature, and film that forges new visions and avoids the constraints of both fundamentalist Islamic and Western definitions of what is aesthetically valid.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Multilingualism of the North African Novel
Metamorphosis and Modernity by Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisia
Other Voices, Other Spaces by Mohamed Choukri, Morocco
Ruin and Affect by Assia Djebar, Algeria
The Visual Arts and Political Resistance
Film and the Mystic Image by Moncef Dhouib, Tunisia
Poststructuralism avant la lettre by Ramses Younan, Egypt
Urban Space in Narratives of Returning Home
The Forked Idiom by Abdelkebir Khatibi, Morocco
The Fault-Line by Mohamed Khair-Eddine, Morocco
Conclusion
Appendixes: Summary of Films by Moncef Dhouib
Endnotes
Bibliography
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