The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf’s Texts

Lhoussain Simour is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco, and senior research associate at the University of Gibraltar.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Postcolonial Malaise in Narration and the Construction of Narrative Imaginary



Reflections on Narrative Development and the Enactment of Gender in Arṣifah wa Judrān [Sidewalks and Walls] (1974)
Rural Peripheries in Aborted Dreams and unterminated Desires: Human Tragedy, Coercive Power, and Social Coercion in Qobūr fī al-māʾ [Graves in the Water] (1978)

Part II: Narration through Episodes from the Margin: The Negotiation of Marginality and the Formation of Marginal Identities



Contested Terrains of Marginality Negotiated: Reinventing the Underground in Muḥāwalat ‘Aysh [Attempt to Live] (1985)
Textual Gates Reopened: Marginality across the Boundaries of Space, Class, and Gender in Bayḍat Adīk [The Rooster’s Egg] (1984)

Part III: Random Strings of Encounter (Re)Imagined: Narrative Building and Characterization Remapped



Narrative Strings Unlaced: Character building through Narrative Encounters in Al-af‘ā wa al-Baḥr [The Viper and the Sea] (1979)
Narration, Characterization and the Construction of the Bohemian Imaginary in A-Thaʿlab a-ladī ya ẓhar wa-yakhtafī [The Elusive Fox] (1989)

Part IV: Of Women and Roses: Pleasures of Encounter in Al-Marʾa wa al-warda [The Woman and the Rose] (1972)



Upward Mobility Conceptualized, Temporal Shifts and Spatial Boundaries Remapped: The Narrative Construction in Al-Marʾa wa al-warda

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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