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MaghrTbine Literature

e most vital of postcolonial literatures.

In general terms, of course, it is hardly possible to speak of MaghrTbine literature as an entity. As Charles Bonn argued, the multiplicity of factors involved can show "qu'il n'existe pas qu'une literature du Maghreb, et que ce dernier gagne au contraire a Otre dTcrit par des voix multiples" (quoted in Redouane 2). Francophone literature only represents some of these voices and many regard them as doubly suspect in view of the connection with colonialism and between class and the mastery of the French language. Francophone writing has even been seen, therefore, as an 'illegitimate' means of expression, one that "poses the threat of a teratology of literary production" (Marx-Scouras 3). In many cases, however, this 'illegitimacy' is actually embraced by writers whose marginalization comes at the hands of both the hegemonic European world and parts of the traditional Islamic society of their own nations. At the same time numerous voices are raised in favor of interculturality and take the position that "the plurality of languages and cultures and the dialogue between cultures" is a desirable effect of the confused and conflicted history of the region and an essential aspect of regional and even national identity (Fisher 85).

No matter how one views it in ideological or political terms, however, the most surprising fact about the Francophone literature of the Maghreb is that it has survived beyond independence. It is a literature that emerged "despite events" and continues today "despite earlier predictions that it would soon wither away" (Roumani). The meaning of this phenomenon is the subject of considerable debate. But its significance is undoubted in so far as it has flourished. It is true, of course, that this is due, in part, to the fact that MaghrTbine works in French are published and promoted more actively than Arabic writing. But it is also the case that MaghrTbine writ...

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