Moroccan Nation-building and theBildungsromanin ʿAbd al-Karīm Ghallāb'sDafannā al-Māḍīandal-Muʿallim ʿAlī
| Autor: | Ahmed Idrissi Alami |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Middle Eastern Literatures. 16:60-75 |
| ISSN: | 1475-2638 1475-262X |
| Popis: | Despite some recent recognition for his novels, the Moroccan novelist, ʿAbd al-Karīm Ghallāb (b. 1917) has been considered, at best, a minor figure in the canon of 20th-century post-colonial writers in Arabic. However, I argue here that we should reconsider two of his nationalist novels, Dafannā al-Māḍī (We Buried the Past) and al-Muʿallim ʿAlī (Master ʿAli), as critical examples of ways in which mid-century novelists engaged in important questions of both domestic and international development on social and political levels. His works highlight important social themes, such as the status of women and entrenched racism, while also providing a coherent construction of national identity through a combination of ideological and historical trajectories. We see this primarily through the lives and progress of each work's primary protagonist; one from the class of local social elite in Fes, Morocco, and the other from the disenfranchised lower class in that same city. He does this by creating works that... |
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