The Representation of North Africa in Paul Bowles' Major Works
978-613-8-38707-7
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320
2019-09-27
87.90 €
eng
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The writer and composer, Paul Bowles, one of America’s most famous expatriates, died in Tangier on November 18, 1999. He had lived there for more than half a century. Bowles’ writings cover the different changes Morocco witnessed stretching from colonial times to independence. Although Bowles wrote for a Western audience, he played a great role in bringing attention to Moroccan popular culture. Still, Bowles’ writings raise a series of controversies among Moroccan intellectuals. My choice of studying Paul Bowles’ representation1 of North Africa is delimited by my interest in the politico-ideological implication of the literary text and by the fact that Bowles is the most prominent American writer who had lived for more than half a century in Tangier, and whose fiction and non-fiction largely deal with North African, particularly Moroccan culture and society. “…’culture’ is used to refer to whatever is distinctive about ‘the way of life’ of a people…”.
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