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Another Morocco: Selected Stories
Taschenbuch von Abdellah Taia
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Taïa 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. Taïa, 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 Taïa'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. Taïa'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 Taïa 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. Taïa, 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 Taïa'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. Taïa's work is, necessarily, a political gesture.

Über den Autor
Abdellah Taïa (born in 1973) is the author of six novels, including Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia, both published by Semiotext(e), and Infidels. His novel Le jour du roi, about the death of Morocco's King Hassan II, won the 2010 Prix de Flore. He also directed and wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film adaptation of Salvation Army.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781584351948
ISBN-10: 1584351942
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taia, Abdellah
Redaktion: Kraus, Chris
Übersetzung: Small, Rachael
Hersteller: MIT Press
Maße: 203 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Abdellah Taia
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,199 kg
Artikel-ID: 103369536
Über den Autor
Abdellah Taïa (born in 1973) is the author of six novels, including Salvation Army and An Arab Melancholia, both published by Semiotext(e), and Infidels. His novel Le jour du roi, about the death of Morocco's King Hassan II, won the 2010 Prix de Flore. He also directed and wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film adaptation of Salvation Army.
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781584351948
ISBN-10: 1584351942
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taia, Abdellah
Redaktion: Kraus, Chris
Übersetzung: Small, Rachael
Hersteller: MIT Press
Maße: 203 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Abdellah Taia
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,199 kg
Artikel-ID: 103369536
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