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28 - The Avant-Garde Journal between Maghreb and Levant

from Part V - World Literature and Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2021

By
Anne-Marie McManus
Edited by
Debjani Ganguly
Debjani Ganguly
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

The 1960s and early 1970s were a moment of literary exchange, collaboration, translation, and experiment between the poles of the Maghreb and Levant. "Global Form, Regional Exchange" reconstitutes the literary systems that authors created to connect two avant-garde movements -- Souffles-Anfas in Morocco and the "60's generation" in Iraq -- to the regional hub for Arabic literary print culture, Beirut. It tracks practices of translation (between French, Arabic, and English) that authors like Sargon Boulus and Abdellatif Laabi, on opposite sides of the region, developed to renew Arabic literature, attending to instances of 'linguistic terrorism' and deployments of untranslatability; theories of a global Arabic; and efforts to emulate the linguistic standards of the Levantine avant-garde. Finally, through a reading of Algerian author Kateb Yacine's work with Beirut-based journals, this article argues for a brief and understudied moment of experiment with Maghrebi literature in standardized Arabic.

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Arabic literaturetranslationliterary journalsworld literatureuntranslatable
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The Cambridge History of World Literature , pp. 527 - 543
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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