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Another Morocco : Selected Stories by Abdellah Taia (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSemiotexte The Limited
ISBN-101584351942
ISBN-139781584351948
eBay Product ID (ePID)229042316
Product Key Features
Book TitleAnother Morocco : Selected Stories
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General, Biographical
Publication Year2017
GenreFiction
AuthorAbdellah Taia
Book SeriesSemiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight7.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal843.92
SynopsisTales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. --from Another Morocco In 2006, Abdellah Ta a returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, Le rouge du tarbouche ( The Red of the Fez ). During this book tour, he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel , who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his writing. Ta a, who had not publically come out and feared the repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless consented to the interview and subsequent profile, "Homosexuel envers et contre tous" ("Homosexual against All Odds"). This interview made him the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Another Morocco collects short stories from Ta a's first two books, Mon Maroc ( My Morocco ) and Le rouge du tarbouche , both published before this pivotal moment. In these stories, we see a young writer testing the porousness of boundaries, flirting with strategies of revelation and concealment. These are tales of life in a working-class Moroccan family, of a maturing writer's fraught relationship with language and community, and of the many cities and works that have inspired him. With a reverence for the subaltern--for the strength of women and the disenfranchised--these stories speak of humanity and the construction of the self against forces that would invalidate its very existence. Ta a's work is, necessarily, a political gesture., Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. -from Another Morocco In 2006, Abdellah Taia returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, Le rouge du tarbouche ( The Red of the Fez ). During this book tour, he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel , who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his writing. Taia, who had not publically come out and feared the repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless consented to the interview and subsequent profile, "Homosexuel envers et contre tous" ("Homosexual against All Odds"). This interview made him the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Another Morocco collects short stories from Taia's first two books, Mon Maroc ( My Morocco ) and Le rouge du tarbouche , both published before this pivotal moment. In these stories, we see a young writer testing the porousness of boundaries, flirting with strategies of revelation and concealment. These are tales of life in a working-class Moroccan family, of a maturing writer's fraught relationship with language and community, and of the many cities and works that have inspired him. With a reverence for the subaltern-for the strength of women and the disenfranchised-these stories speak of humanity and the construction of the self against forces that would invalidate its very existence. Taia's work is, necessarily, a political gesture.
LC Classification NumberPQ3989.2.T27A6 2017
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