This panel on representations of North African Identity has been approved by NEMLA
The Northeast Modern Language Association
2002 Convention, Toronto, Canada
April 12-13, 2002
"Literary and Cinematic Representations of North African Identity:
Voices and Images from Home and Abroad"
This panel seeks to investigate the ways North African francophone
writers and movie directors address issues of identity. Living
continuously on the fringes of two cultures and two societies, North
African postcolonial writers and movie directors have been trying to
negotiate and eventually re-inscribe a hybrid identity that answers to
the demands of both a centuries-long indigenous heritage and an
inexorably encroaching modernity.
Negotiating an identity in the midst of the cultural mosaic of North
Africa is further problematized by issues of migration and dislocation.
North African Diaspora in France also voices similar concerns. The
experience of living in an alien society has created images of
marginalization and dispossession. North African immigrant community has
therefore devoted their creative and imaginative space to addressing the
alienating effects of living in their host country. Issues of police
violence, racism and social integration have become a defining feature
of their daily experience.
This panel therefore will focus on how the issue of identity is posited
in North African literature and cinema . It will specifically be
concerned with the ways in which North African authors and directors
redefine their culture and identity in the changing geo-political map of
the world.
I am interested in both English and French language representations of
the topic. Please send abstracts (English or French) and any requests
for audio/visual equipment by September 15, 01 to,
Salah Moukhlis
322 Main Street, #D
Easthampton, MA 01027
or preferably in the body of an e-mail to,
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