Meg Furniss Weisberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6441552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meg Furniss Weisberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meg Furniss |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEISBERG M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kentucky Wesleyan College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Clandestine Emigration as Twenty-First Century Meme in the Roman Maghrébin
Abdelkebir Khatibi asserted in his 1968 Le Roman maghrébin that the Algerian War of Independence occupied the imagination of mid-twentieth-century writers and encapsulated an era; this essay argues that the twenty-first century lightning rod for the roman maghrébin is clandestine emigration—l'hrig, or “burning.” This “soft war” that is both the legacy of colonialism and a byproduct of globalization is becoming as imaginatively all-encompassing to…
Jungle and Desert in Postcolonial Texts
This article examines postcolonial representations of the jungle and the desert, focusing on two novels in particular: Étienne Goyémidé’s Le silence de la forêt (1984) and Tahar Djaout’s L’invention du désert (1987). Postcolonial literary representations of these “extreme” landscapes are layered with allusions and almost always engage in an intertextual conversation with the colonial genres that influenced readers’ conception of these spaces. The…
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Jungle and Desert in Postcolonial Texts
This article examines postcolonial representations of the jungle and the desert, focusing on two novels in particular: Étienne Goyémidé’s Le silence de la forêt (1984) and Tahar Djaout’s L’invention du désert (1987). Postcolonial literary representations of these “extreme” landscapes are layered with allusions and almost always engage in an intertextual conversation with the colonial genres that influenced readers’ conception of these spaces. The…
Clandestine Emigration as Twenty-First Century Meme in the Roman Maghrébin
Abdelkebir Khatibi asserted in his 1968 Le Roman maghrébin that the Algerian War of Independence occupied the imagination of mid-twentieth-century writers and encapsulated an era; this essay argues that the twenty-first century lightning rod for the roman maghrébin is clandestine emigration—l'hrig, or “burning.” This “soft war” that is both the legacy of colonialism and a byproduct of globalization is becoming as imaginatively all-encompassing to…
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