1st Edition
Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature
By Michael K. Walonen
Copyright 2011
176 Pages
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Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his study of the Tangier expatriate community, Michael K. Walonen analyzes the representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Alfred Chester during the end of the colonial era and the earliest days of post-independence. The conceptualizations of space in these authors' descriptions of Tangier, Walonen shows, share... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Cultural Dynamics of Expatriate Tangier; Chapter 3 Paul Bowles, Approaching the Maghreb; Chapter 4 Always on the Outside: Jane Bowles’s Vision of Spatial Impenetrability; Chapter 5 “Don’t ever fall for this inscrutable oriental shit like Bowles puts down”: Demystifying and Remystifying the Maghreb in William Burroughs’s Tangier Writings; Chapter 6 Brion Gysin’s Conflictive Maghreb; Chapter 7 Alfred Chester: In Search of Belonging Through Mapping and Sex; Chapter 8 A Counter-Discourse of Tangerian Space in the Works of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Anouar Majid; aft Afterword;
Biography
Michael K. Walonen is an Assistant Professor of English at Bethune-Cookman University. His work, situated at the disciplinary intersection of cultural studies and social geography, focuses on transnational and American regional literature.
'... the author has to be praised for his relevant selection of authors and texts, and his systematic analysis of two interesting issues: contrast in non-native and native writings, and contrast among the views of English-speaking writers. Another significant strength of the text is the author’s concise, lucid, and accessible writing style... the book can be highly recommended. It is a noteworthy contribution to the field of postcolonial African Studies, and it will be greatly appreciated by any scholar wishing to have a comprehensive reading of a wide variety of complex themes related to expatriate literature in general, and English-speaking intellectual circles in Morocco in particular.' African Studies Quarterly 'Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition serves as a fine example of the sort of work the author’s subject deserves. It is well-written, contains two very useful maps, and a helpful bibliography.' Transnational Literature
