1st Edition

The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989

By Anouar El Younssi Copyright 2025
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967. Drawing on works by Muḥammad Barrādah, ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī, Aḥmad al-Madīnī, and others, the book contends that the Moroccan... Read more

Introduction: Mapping al-Tajrīb in the Moroccan and Arabic Novel

Chapter 1: The New Novel in Morocco and the Arab World and the Question of Reception

Chapter 2: Al-Tajrīb (Experimentation), al-Turāth (Heritage), and The New Moroccan Novel: Between Innovation and Imitation

Chapter 3: Aḥmad al-Madīnī’s Zaman bayna al-Wilādah wa al-Ḥulm: Writing the Self and Flouting Systems of Authority

Chapter 4: Muḥammad Barrādah’s The Game of Forgetting: Experimental Multiplicity, Ludic Memory, and Sexual Politics

Chapter 5: ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī’s ʾAwrāq Sīrat Idrīs al-Dhihniyyah: The Politics of Form as an Allegory for the State of Crisis

Conclusion

Index

 

Biography

Anouar El Younssi is an Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Oxford College of Emory University, USA. His most recent publications include articles in journals such as Tamazgha Studies Journal , Journal of Arabic Literature, and The Journal of North African Studies.