Postcolonial fiction and sacred scripture: rewriting the divine?

by Qadiri, Sura

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Title Statements

Full title :Postcolonial fiction and sacred scripture : rewriting the divine? / Sura Qadiri.

Summary

Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) revisit scripture as a way to convey nuances which they believe have been stamped out by monolithic religious world-views. For them, fiction offers a way to break away from limited exegetical horizons, but to remain within the faith. Others, though, would go further, moving away from all religious practice, not just the excessively political or violent. Tunisian writers Abdelwahab Meddeb and Fethi Benslama propose that all literature is of its very nature outside of religion, and that its proliferation will ultimately lead to a secular society. Qadiri explores this wide spectrum of approaches, not only by drawing comparison with metropolitan French thought, but also by assessing its potential impact at a time of radical change in the Islamic world. Sura Qadiri is a research associate in the French Department, University of Cambridge.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:134 pages ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1907975810, 9781907975813
oclc:ocn825047785
LC Classification:PQ3988.5.N6
Dewey Decimal:297

Body, Text, Excess -- Withdrawn Divine I: The Blank Book in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable and Arnin Maalouf's Le Périple de Baldassare -- Withdrawn Divine II: Vanishing Bodies and Empty Space in Georges Perec's La Disparitiou and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue française -- Divine Senses of Place: Mecca versus Madina.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Französisch French fiction French fiction -- History and criticism… Heilige Schrift Islamic literature Islamic literature -- History and criti… Literatur Littérature islamique -- Histoire et cr… Naher Osten Nordafrika North African fiction (French) North African fiction (French) -- Histo… Roman français -- Histoire et critique … Roman maghrébin (français) -- Histoire …