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Book SynopsisWriting Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the literary imagination; what is the nature of the inter-textual output produced through Paul Bowles' translations of the oral tales of a circle of uneducated storytellers (including Mohammed Mrabet and Larbi Layachi) and the text (
For Bread Alone) brought to Bowles by the literate Mohamed Choukri; how do academics, artists, and writers who have been based in the city or who have written about it assess the various socio-economic, political, and cultural factors that have shaped its cultural production and the relationship of this production to the celebrated hybrid aspects of its identity; does the success of the literature of Tangier reflect a truly new multicultural cosmopolitanism, or does it stem from the fact tha
Table of ContentsContents: Khalid Amine/Andrew Hussey: A Preface – Ralph M. Coury: Some Introductory Remarks – Allen Hibbard: Tangier at the Crossroads: Cross-cultural Encounters and Literary Production – Jeffrey Miller: Publishing Tangier: Twenty-five Years – Salah Moukhlis: Localized Identity, Universal Experience: Celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan Writer – Andrew Hussey: Forbidden Territory: Juan Goytisolo’s Maps of Tangier – Abdellatif Akbib: Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri’s
The Flower Freak – Khalid Amine: Paul Bowles’ Tangier: An Ambiguous Compromise – R. Kevin Lacey: The Writers/Storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: Some Observations and Afterthoughts – Barry Tharaud: Culture and Existence in Bowles’ Short Fiction – Greg Mullins: Visions and Revisions of Paul Bowles in Tangier – Ralph M. Coury: The Twain Met: Paul Bowles’ Western and Arab Critics – Karim Bejjit: Tangier That Was: The Confessions of Samuel Pepys (1683) – Mohammed-Saâd Zemmouri : Tanger, ville-mythe dans le discours romanesque de deux écrivains tangérois (M. Choukri and T. Ben Jelloun) – José Manuel Goñi Pérez: Las construcciones verbales de Tánger: tres ejemplos de la narrativa española.
