The Transcontinental Maghreb Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, "The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature across the Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 0823275159 | 2017 | 272 pages | EPUB | 521 KB
The writer Gabriel Audisio once called the Mediterranean a "liquid continent." Taking up the challenge issued by Audisio's phrase, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev insists that we understand the region on both sides of the Mediterranean through a "transcontinental" heuristic. Rather than merely read the Maghreb in the context of its European colonizers from across the Mediterranean, Talbayev compellingly argues for a transmaritime deployment of the Maghreb across the multiple Mediterranean sites to which it has been materially and culturally bound for millennia.