The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989

Name: The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989
ISBN: 9781032613727

Release Date:: 1 January 2025
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ISBN:: 9781032613727

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"The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967. Drawing on works by Muhammad Barradah, Abdullah al-Arwi, Aḥmad al-Madini, and others, the book contends that the Moroccan experimental novel reflects an historic turning point and transitional cultural landscape. It further shows that the experimental novel laid the ground for a different vision of literature, an important feature of which was the intent to surpass the traditional realist model as executed by Moroccan novelist Abdulkarim Ghallab (1919-2017) and Egyptian Nobel Laureate Najib Mahfuz (1911-2006). This new vision of literature seeks to create new discursive spheres for the treatment of the social and the political. This book will be an important contribution to debates around Moroccan/Arabic/Maghrebi literature, as well as the field of literary experimentalism more broadly"--

ISBN 9781032613727