Code
01D25611
Duration
01 October 2011 → 01 June 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
interculturality
post-nationalism
magical realism
anti-authoritarianism
modern Arabic literature
post-colonialism
post-modernism
Project description
By a close reading of six Arabophone novels that originate from diverse geographical, cultural and religious settings, this project investigates to what extent magical realism's genre theory, mainly based on Latin-American examples, offers a fruitful framework for analyzing Arabic novels that are considered magical realist, and whether this framework needs to be adapted to the specific local context.