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Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco - Poetic Space, Liminality, and In-Betweenness (Hardcover)
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Paul Bowles's Literary Engagement with Morocco - Poetic Space, Liminality, and In-Betweenness (Hardcover)
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This study argues that Paul Bowles is more perceptive than many
American travelers in Morocco. The book provides us with what are
perhaps the most sustained meditations to date on Bowles's
translation work and his autobiography, as well as perceptive
analyses of key stories such as "A Distant Episode" and "Here to
Learn" and his second novel, Let It Come Down, set primarily in
Tangier. The chapter on translation dwells on the complex
interactions between Moroccan storytellers and Bowles. The work
considers translation as a site where the oral and written,
colonial and post-colonial scene, and English and Maghrebi come
face to face; it is a place where things are worked out in dynamic
interaction. The chapter on Bowles's autobiography Without
Stopping, urges us to take this piece of self-writing (famously
dubbed Without Telling by William Burroughs) more seriously,
drawing our attention to baroque architectural features of mind and
external landscape, worlds distorted by mirrors, dreams, and fluid
transit where forms morph. The work also highlights difference
between experience and representation of experience through
language, transformed through the prism of memory. In the chapter
on Without Stopping as well as in my discussions of Bowles's
fiction, I provide useful elaborations of connections between
Bowles's work and that of Edgar Allan Poe. My reading of one of
Bowles's best-known stories, "A Distant Episode," brings to the
surface a recognition that the tragic fate of the Professor, the
story's protagonist, is an outcome of his inability to admit that
cultures are not static. The academically trained linguist
demonstrates an unwillingness or inability to adapt to change, or
to read cultural signs accurately. The message is that Morocco is
not stuck in time, and cannot be held in place by Orientalist
fantasies or preconceived, externally derived intellectual
constructs and assumptions. The book concludes that against the
grain of Samuel Huntington's notion of Clash of Civilizations,
Bowles's poetic and geographical journey forcefully projects
cosmopolitanism and transnational attention confirming that
civilizations and 'identities' open up rather than shut down, war
or clash.
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