Contesting the Classroom - Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

Contesting the Classroom explores how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literature has been taught in Morocco and Algeria. It argues that Arabized education has indelibly influenced the development of postcolonial novels, which have a deeply fraught yet endlessly creative relationship to the classroom.

About the author

Erin Twohig is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University.

Summary

Contesting the Classroom explores how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literature has been taught in Morocco and Algeria. It argues that Arabized education has indelibly influenced the development of postcolonial novels, which have a deeply fraught yet endlessly creative relationship to the classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Twohig, Erin (Department of French and Francophone Twohig, Erin (Department of French and Francophone Studies Twohig
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781789620214
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-021-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Marokko, Algerien, Pädagogik: Theorie und Philosophie