Reading Mohamed Choukri's narratives : hunger in Eden / edited by Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen.

"Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature. Known primarily for his groundbreaking autobiographical work "al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī" (For Bread Alo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Elbousty, Jonas (Editor), Allen, Roger, 1942- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jonas Elbousty & Roger Allen
  • Mohamed Choukri's short stories : Flower crazy and The tent / Jonas Elbousty
  • Moroccan literary history and Muhammed Shukri / Roger Allen
  • Translation and cultural appropriation : Paul Bowles' translation of Mohamed Choukri's al-Khubz al-Ḥāfīi / Qussay al-Attabi
  • Translating Mohamed Choukri : between manipulation and rewriting / Hanan Bennoudi
  • Education as paradox and possibility in Mohammed Choukri's novel Streetwise / Touria Khannous
  • Negotiating space : reclaiming the spatial gender boundaries of Tangier in Muḥammad Shukri's autobiographical novel Wujüh (Faces) / Mbarek Sryfi
  • "Sex work was hiring" : disguised sociopolitical critique in For bread alone and Zifzaf's The woman and the rose / Ian Campbell
  • Mohamed Choukri : when literature offers biting social critique / Anouar El Younssi
  • The poetics of atheism : how Mohamed Choukri resists ideological appropriation / Natalie Khazaal
  • Tyranny across Choukri & Kafka : systems of power within the father / Mustafa Zewar.