Reclaiming Tangier

Mohammed Choukri's Al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī and Subaltern Citizenship in Urban Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID9250133
AuthorsEl-Sherif El-Sherif (University of Modern Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume44
Issue3
Pages101
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/reseafrilite.44.3.101
OpenAlexW2039724684
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

This article examines Choukri’s Al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī in relation to the widely circulated Euro-American geo-literary imaginary of cosmopolitan Tangier. The paper highlights the political expediency of the Arabic text showing how Choukri challenges the rhetorical violence of silencing the Moroccans in European and American accounts by casting them in roles of natives/ Muslims outside discourses of citizenship in the modern city. Most fully, the following analysis illustrates how Choukri uses realist representation to engage with the city’s spheres of monetary circulation and social indifference to unsettle totalizing representations of Tangier’s cosmopolitanism. Finally, the paper reexamines dismissive Arab critics’ reception of the text, arguing for the necessity of reimagining it in relation to discourses of the modern city

Art · Citizenship · Literature · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Representation (politics) · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Subaltern · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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