Eric Sellin
Biographic Data
| ID | 208533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Sellin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellin |
| SIGNATURE | SELLIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Four Poems
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. When a woman decides to her wings, she takes big risks, she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all…
Tahar Djaout (1954-1993)
Mohammed Dib, Le désert sans détour (Paris: (Sindbad, 1992). Pp. 136
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The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
Fortune de la littérature maghrébine en Amérique du Nord
Sellin Eric. Fortune de la littérature maghrébine en Amérique du Nord . In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°59-60, 1991. Des ethnies aux nations en Asie centrale, sous la direction de Olivier Roy . pp. 253-258
Reflections on Linguistic and Literary Colonization and Decolonization in Africa
Despite the cultural diversity found in Africa and the complexity ofthe psychology of the colonizer and the colonized, several fundamental facts emerge regarding the function of language and literature in recent African history. The colonizer sought to instill a sense of inferiority in the colonized as part of the dynamics of conquest, placing special emphasis on education and language. These notions, lucidly discussed by such social thinkers as …
Obsession with the White Page, the Inability to Communicate, and Surface Aesthetics in the Development of Contemporary Maghrebian Fiction: The Mal de la Page Blanche in Khatibi, Farès and Meddeb
Writer's block is not a new concept, but I should like to consider it in a new context: the realm of the young and rapidly developing Francophone literature of the Maghreb. I am suggesting that the writer's malaise before the blank page is a sign of a highly developed authorial relationship with one's language and materials and that the recent increase in the number of (1) testimonials in which Maghrebian writers bear witness to their sense of im…
The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem
The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Antonin Artaud
Continent-Afrique suivi de Amazoulou
Abraha Pokou ou Une grande africaine, suivi de La voix grave d'Ophimoï
The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem
Obsession with the White Page, the Inability to Communicate, and Surface Aesthetics in the Development of Contemporary Maghrebian Fiction: The Mal de la Page Blanche in Khatibi, Farès and Meddeb
Writer's block is not a new concept, but I should like to consider it in a new context: the realm of the young and rapidly developing Francophone literature of the Maghreb. I am suggesting that the writer's malaise before the blank page is a sign of a highly developed authorial relationship with one's language and materials and that the recent increase in the number of (1) testimonials in which Maghrebian writers bear witness to their sense of im…
Tahar Djaout (1954-1993)
The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Continent-Afrique suivi de Amazoulou
Abraha Pokou ou Une grande africaine, suivi de La voix grave d'Ophimoï
The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor
The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem
Obsession with the White Page, the Inability to Communicate, and Surface Aesthetics in the Development of Contemporary Maghrebian Fiction: The Mal de la Page Blanche in Khatibi, Farès and Meddeb
Writer's block is not a new concept, but I should like to consider it in a new context: the realm of the young and rapidly developing Francophone literature of the Maghreb. I am suggesting that the writer's malaise before the blank page is a sign of a highly developed authorial relationship with one's language and materials and that the recent increase in the number of (1) testimonials in which Maghrebian writers bear witness to their sense of im…
Fortune de la littérature maghrébine en Amérique du Nord
Sellin Eric. Fortune de la littérature maghrébine en Amérique du Nord . In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°59-60, 1991. Des ethnies aux nations en Asie centrale, sous la direction de Olivier Roy . pp. 253-258
Reflections on Linguistic and Literary Colonization and Decolonization in Africa
Despite the cultural diversity found in Africa and the complexity ofthe psychology of the colonizer and the colonized, several fundamental facts emerge regarding the function of language and literature in recent African history. The colonizer sought to instill a sense of inferiority in the colonized as part of the dynamics of conquest, placing special emphasis on education and language. These notions, lucidly discussed by such social thinkers as …
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
Tahar Djaout (1954-1993)
Mohammed Dib, Le désert sans détour (Paris: (Sindbad, 1992). Pp. 136
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. When a woman decides to her wings, she takes big risks, she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all…
Four Poems
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