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France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters
Contributor(s): Rosello, Mireille (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813028531     ISBN-13: 9780813028538
Publisher: University Press of Florida
OUR PRICE: $68.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - North
- History | Europe - France
- History | Social History
Dewey: 303.482
LCCN: 2005048562
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.32" W x 9.38" L (1.06 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Cultural Region - North Africa
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Looking at writers, directors, and thinkers who are linked to the Maghreb, Mireille Rosello argues that new types of encounters between the French and the Algerians have the potential to counteract the negative force of history. She maintains that these "performative" encounters are moments of fragile and precarious exchange that could shift the tragic paradigm of violence and mistrust among Arabs, Berbers, and Europeans or among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. A performative encounter between historical adversaries creates new subject-positions, a new language, and a new protocol of cohabitation, she contends. Performance encounters inaugurate a new historical script. At such times subjects can redefine each other, and they can speak not in French or Arabic but in a language similar to Khatibi's poetical and interstitial "bilanguage" that reexamines the terms and practices of their interaction. Attentive to the interconnections among language, gender, literature, and cultural politics, Rosello looks at a rich variety of contemporary stories generated by historians (Benjamin Stora, Mohamed Harbi, Charles-Robert Ageron), philosophers (Jacques Derrida), filmmakers (Yamina Benguigui, Mehdi Lallaoui), and emerging and internationally famous writers (Fouad Laroui, Mehdi Charef, Abdelkebir Khatibi). She devotes special consideration to an innovative analysis of the work of one of the most important contemporary French-language writers, Assia Djebar.
 
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