The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf's Texts: The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies

The book explores the intersection of literature, culture, and discourse through the reading of Zafzaf's novels from the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the aesthetic imaginary of a unique writing experience in Morocco and the Arab world. It addresses social contradictions, cultural transition, and political transformations through various aesthetic patterns, theorizing and approaching neglected narratives in Moroccan literature of Arabic expression. It draws attention to the aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications of these texts, rethinking and disturbing canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco.

Format: Hardback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

This book explores the interface between literature, culture, and discourse, focusing on the reading of Zafzaf's novels from the early 1970s and late 1980s. It aims to chart the trajectory of an exceptional writing experience that shaped the literary and cultural landscape in Morocco and the Arab world. Zafzaf's writings are associated with social contradictions, cultural transition, and political transformations, expressed through various aesthetic patterns that reflect the crisis of the intellectual within a society grappling with poverty, political instability, social conflict, and cultural disintegration. Given the limited resources available in English about the Moroccan novel of Arabic expression, this work seeks to theorize and approach these narratives in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing on postcolonial discourse as an approach and metaphor of reading. It highlights the often-neglected texts in Moroccan literature of Arabic expression and explores their aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications, challenging canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco. This book will be valuable in the burgeoning fields of the Humanities, providing useful resources for courses about Moroccan Literature and culture.

Weight: 417g
Dimension: 228 x 160 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793645975