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Zones of Perceptual Enclosure: The Aesthetics of Immobility in Casablanca’s Literary Bidonvilles
- Research in African Literatures
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2016
- pp. 32-49
- 10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.03
- Article
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Abstract
This essay explores the imagination of the Moroccan bidonville as “captive space” in two recent francophone Moroccan novels: Mahi Binebine’s Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen [The Stars of Sidi Moumen] (2010) and Naïma Lahbil Tagemouati’s La Liste [The List] (2013). Drawing on theoretical work on the “zone of nonbeing” (Fanon), “perceptual enclosure” (Sekyi-Otu), and “conditions of appearance” (Gordon), the essay seeks to understand the aesthetics of immobility and the possibilities of self-constitution and self-revision present in the two novels.
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