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Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, Réda Bensmaïa argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations worth considering for their innovative style or language but as "ethnographic" texts and to appraise them only against the "French literary canon." He casts fresh light on the original literary strategies many such writers have deployed to reappropriate their cultural heritage and "reconfigure" their nations in the decades since colonialism. Tracing the move from the anticolonial, nationalist, and arabist literature of the early years to the relative cosmopolitanism and diversity of Maghrebi francophone literature today, Bensmaïa draws on contemporary literary and postcolonial theory to "deterritorialize" its study. Whether in Assia Djebar's novels and films, Abdelkebir Khatabi's prose poems or critical essays, or the novels of Nabile Farès, Abdelwahab Meddeb, or Mouloud Feraoun, he raises the veil that hides the intrinsic richness of these artists' works from the eyes of even an attentive audience. Bensmaïa shows us how such Maghrebi writers have opened their nations as territories to rediscover and stake out, to invent, while creating a new language. In presenting this masterful account of "virtual" but veritable nations, he sets forth a new and fertile topography for francophone literature.

82.091 --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- North African literature (French) --- History and criticism. --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- History and criticism

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Il n'y a pas de sujets. Il n'y a qu'un sujet : celui qui écrit ", " disait Léon-Paul Fargue. Cette ambiguïté fonde, bien au-delà de la littérature, l'idée d'une "expérience esthétique ". Elle ouvre toutes les questions relatives au sujet (et aux sujets) de l'art. Envisagées tant du point de vue de l'œuvre que du point de vue de l'artiste, ces questions nous rejettent aux limites de la pensée esthétique, sur ces marges où se font et se défont aussi bien la stabilité de l'œuvre que l'individuation du créateur. Or il est remarquable que ces marges soient les lieux qu'explorent par prédilection les artistes (Proust entre autres) et les philosophes (Kant, Deleuze...). Ce volume emprunte les cheminements croisés de la littérature, de la philosophie et de l'esthétique pour mettre à l'épreuve l'idée d'un art sans sujet. Façons de cerner mieux la place et la nature de ce concept central et incertain, massif et fuyant, nécessaire et hasardeux: le sujet de l'art.

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Essays --- French essays --- History and criticism --- Barthes, Roland --- Montaigne, Michel de, --- Influence.

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