Giovannucci, Perri.

Literature and development in North Africa the modernizing mission / [electronic resource] : Perri Giovannucci. - New York : Routledge, 2008. - vii, 245 p. - Literary criticism and cultural theory . - Literary criticism and cultural theory. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Modernization and its discontents -- North Africa and the anti-colonial critics : Fanon, Memmi, Sartre, Camus -- Camus, Djebar, and the 'non-color' of nonviolence -- Paris on the Nile, Egypt on the plantation : development after Muhammad Ali -- Letters of a lost generation : Alhadeff, Aciman, Said, Durrell, Mahfouz -- The radical surgery of a woman doctor : Nawal el Saadawi -- Conclusion.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Arabic literature--History and criticism.--Africa, North
Arabic literature--History and criticism.--20th century
North African literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature and globalization--Africa, North.


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