Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission

ISBN-13: 9780415541640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 246 str.

Perri Giovannucci

Opis

This title looks at the colonial history of the discourse and practices of contemporary development which can be traced in the seminal texts of anti-colonial and postcolonial literature such as works by Frantz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction  1. Modernization and its Discontents  2. North Africa and the Anti-Colonial Critics: Fanon, Memmi, Sartre, Camus  3. Camus, Djebar, and the "Non-Color" of Nonviolence  4. Paris on the Nile, Egypt on the Plantation: Development after Muhammad Ali  5. Letters of a Lost Generation: Alhadeff, Aciman, Said, Durrell, Mahfouz  6. The Radical Surgery of a Woman Doctor: Nawal El Saadawi.  Conclusion.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Perri Giovannucci received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Miami. She teaches English at Wayne State University in Detroit and at Macomb College in Warren, Michigan. She is currently working on a study of contemporary war journalism.