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Metaphors of Invention and Dissension - Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel (Hardcover)
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Metaphors of Invention and Dissension - Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Reinventing Critical Theory
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Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship
between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel,
examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French
expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni. Rajeshwari S. Vallury
argues that postcolonial literature demonstrates a conscious,
rational, and deliberate engagement with the question of democracy.
The author shows how the metaphors of literature invent an arena or
platform for the enactment of democratic dissension. Postcolonial
texts stage contentious debates about the principles that can and
must sustain a life of the common. The capacity of the poetic word
to regenerate and recreate forms of thinking, being, saying, and
doing lies at the heart of the political power of literature. In
the case of Algeria, the dual forces of military rule and radical
Islamism have not succeeded in stifling the revolutionary will of
the people, which continues to find self-expression in the idea of
the nation, the concept of universal human rights, the notion of
civility, and the philosophical traditions of pluralism and
toleration within Islam. This book argues that postcolonial
literature attests to the dissonance of democracy by staging the
nation as the space of a universal equality and civility.
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