What is it about?
The study of North African literarure has been firmly rooted in francophone frameworks since the 1960s, an approach that perpetuates colonial categories of both space and language. We try to push it beyond the geographic and linguistic limitations of these colonial categories.
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Why is it important?
Not only does it take into account the under studied North African literatures that are not in French, it also keeps North Africa within the framework of African Literary Studies
Perspectives
This was a co-edited special issue of a journal. Collaborations are relatively rarer in the humanities than in other fields, yet they can be enriching and conducive to new perspectives. The authors whose articles were included in teh special issue also bring a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds with the potential to expand future definitiosn of North African Literary Studies
Ziad Bentahar
Towson University
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This page is a summary of: Beyond the Francophone Maghreb, Journal of the African Literature Association, September 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2020.1812265.
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