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Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa - Homo Expendibilis (Paperback)
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Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa - Homo Expendibilis (Paperback)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo
Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature
situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political
philosophy, and sociology. The author analyzes social categories in
relation to civil and social protections and in particular, the
ways in which disruptions to these protections can lead to social
degeneration. The author's analysis starts from the premise that
precarious lives in North Africa have become true bodies of
exception. In other words, they are deemed dangerous, expendable
and unworthy of the rights and treatment accorded to full citizens.
Thus, the author assesses portrayals of violence in contemporary
literature as a crystallization of the existing disjunction between
the socially disqualified and those who wield colonial, political,
and religious power. Moreover, the author argues that in order to
understand contemporary politics and the current climate of
insecurity, a deeper understanding of precarity in North Africa
from colonial times to the present is crucial. By affirming their
right to exist, the author argues that the marginal bodies of North
Africa offer unique insights into the society that marginalized
them and thus, from the often inaudible and invisible periphery,
they nevertheless challenge the dominant ideas of the center.
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