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transcolonial maghreb Cultural Memory in the Present Hent de Vries, Editor TRANSCOLONIAL MAGHREB Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization Olivia C. Harrison stanford university press stanford, california Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2016 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Parts of Chapter One originally appeared as “Cross-Colonial Poetics: Souffles-Anfas and the Figure of Palestine” in PMLA 128.2 (March 2013): 353–69, published by the Modern Language Association of America. Reprinted by permission. Parts of Chapter Two were originally published as “Staging Palestine in France- Algeria: Popular Theater and the Politics of Transcolonial Comparison,” in Social Text, Vol. 30, issue. 112, pp. 27–47. Copyright 2012, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the present publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harrison, Olivia C., 1980- author. Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization / Olivia C. Harrison. pages cm--(Cultural memory in the present) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-9421-3 (cloth : alk. paper)-- isbn 978-0-8047-9682-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)-- isbn 978-0-8047-9685-9 (eBook) 1. North African literature--20th century--History and criticism. 2. Arab-Israeli conflict--Literature and the conflict. 3. Palestine--In literature. 4. Colonies in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Cultural memory in the present. pn849.a355h37 2015 809'.933585694--dc23 2015026356 Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond in memory of James Pinckney Harrison (1932–2010) to Arne, Ada, and Louise, for life Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Palestine as Metaphor 1 part i. decolonizing the maghreb 1. Souffles-Anfas: Palestine and the Decolonization of Culture 17 2. Transcolonial Hospitality: Kateb Yacine’s Experiments in Popular Theater 41 3. The Transcolonial Exotic: Allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Algerian Trilogy 61 part ii. jews, arabs, and the principle of separation 4. Portrait of an Arab Jew: Albert Memmi and the Politics of Indigeneity 81 5. Abrahamic Tongues: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida 101 6. Edmond Amran El Maleh and the Cause of the Other 129 Epilogue: Palestine and the Syrian Intifada 143 Notes 153 Index 187
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