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
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Sellin (Temple College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-173 |
| Publication date | 1988-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800033912 |
| OpenAlex | W2114960050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 impotence when facing the purity of the white page and (2) reactions symptomatic of that frustration is evidence of development in the literature in question
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Linguistics · Literature · Realm · White (mutation · Witness · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |