The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature Across the Mediterranean

Product description Review "Impressively up to date and beautifully written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of French and Francophone Studies, postcolonial studies, the growing field of Mediterranean studies, and transcultural approaches to memory. Talbayev gives lucid overviews of these areas, while proposing her own distinctive models for thinking about transcontinental connections in a global age."---Debarati Sanyal, University of California, BerkeleyIn this wide-reaching, well-researched book, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev provides innovative perspectives on what she has evocatively termed 'the Mediterranean-infused Maghreb', bringing together in unprecedented ways the complementary but disparate disciplines of francophone and Mediterranean studies.-- "French Studies"The Transcontinental Maghreb is a highly sophisticated and perceptive study of transculturality in the Maghreb, combining original historical reflection as well as intricate close reading of important literary texts by a range of Maghrebian writers.---Jane Hiddleston, The Journal of Mediterranean StudiesEdwige Talbayev offers an exemplary study on literatures of the Maghreb.---Valérie K. Orlando, The Journal of North African Studies About the Author Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University. She is editor of Expressions maghrébines.Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University. She is editor of Expressions maghrébines.