Carine Bourget

The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent (eBook, ePUB)

Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Christian (Accad, Antaki, Chédid, Maalouf), Jewish (Albou, Cixous, El Maleh, Memmi), Muslim (Bachi, Benaïssa, Benguigui, Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Boudjellal, Meddeb, Mimouni), and secular (Sebbar) backgrounds are emblematic of the diversity of the Francophone Arab world. It examines how these writers represent the intertwining of religion and politics against the backdrop of the current international political context and the resurgence of religion. Focusing on a series of disputes commonly framed in religious terms (with Islam as the common denominator for all: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese and the Algerian civil wars, the affair of the Muslim headscarf in France, and 9/11), this book questions the effectiveness of the Francophone studies model in providing insights into the complexity of the Islamic Revival. The study concludes by unpacking the influence of politics on the translation of these works in the U.S. It brings heightened awareness to the modalities according to which a creative work can serve as a cultural mediator.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461662693
• Artikelnr.: 38319160

Autorenporträt

Carine Bourget is associate professor of French and Francophone studies and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Religion, Politics, and Literature in the
Francophone Arab World
Chapter 2 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Amin Maalouf's Les Croisades vues par
les Arabes and Les Echelles du Levant, Myriam Antaki's Les Versets du
pardon
Chapter 3 The Arab-Israeli Conflict Beyond the Middle East: Albert Memmi,
Edmond Amran El Maleh, Farid Boudjellal, and Karin Albou
Chapter 4 The Lebanese Civil War: Andrée Chédid's La maison sans racines
and Evelyne Accad's L'Excisée
Chapter 5 The Algerian Civil War: Rachid Boudjedra's Le FIS de la haine,
Rachid Mimouni's De la barbarie en général et de l'intégrisme en
particulier, and Une enfance algérienne
Chapter 6 Islam and the French Republic: The Affair of the Muslim Headscarf
in works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Amin Maalouf, Albert
Memmi, Leïla Sebbar, and Yamina Benguigui
Chapter 7 Portrait of a Terrorist: Slimane Benaïssa and Salim Bachi's 9/11
Novels
Chapter 8 The Politics of Translation: Francophone Literature from the Arab
World in the U.S.