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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823237999
035 _a(DE-B1597)554986
035 _a(OCoLC)647876436
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aQader, Nasrin
_eautore
245 1 0 _aNarratives of Catastrophe :
_bBoris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi /
_cNasrin Qader.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (238 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Becoming-Survivor --
_t2. Suffering Time --
_t3. Shadowing the Storyteller --
_t4. Un-limiting Thought --
_t5. Figuring the Wine-Bearer --
_tConclusion. Engendering Catastrophes --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aNarratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Qader's book begins by exploring the political implications of narrating catastrophic historical events. Through careful readings of singular literary texts on the genocide in Rwanda and on Tazmamart, a secret prison in Morocco under the reign of Hassan II, Qader shows how historical catastrophes enter language and how this language is marked by the catastrophe it recounts. Not satisfied with the extra-literary characterizations of catastrophe in terms of numbers, laws, and naming, she investigates the catastrophic in catastrophe, arguing that catastrophe is always an effect of language andthought,. The récit becomes a privileged site because the difficulties of thinking and speaking about catastrophe unfold through the very movements of storytelling.This book intervenes in important ways in the current scholarship in the field of African literatures. It shows the contributions of African literatures in elucidating theoretical problems for literary studies in general, such as storytelling's relationship to temporality, subjectivity, and thought. Moreover, it addresses the issue of storytelling, which is of central concern in the context of African literatures but still remains limited mostly to the distinction between the oral and the written. The notion of récit breaks with this duality by foregrounding the inaugural temporality of telling and of writing as repetition.The final chapters examine catastrophic turns within the philosophical traditions of the West and in Islamic thought, highlighting their interconnections and differences.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aAfrican fiction (French)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aDisasters in literature.
650 0 _aStorytelling in literature.
650 4 _aAfrican Studies.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237999?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823237999
856 4 2 _3Cover
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