Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa - Homo Expendibilis

Informationen zum Autor Hervé Anderson Tchumkam is associate professor of French and Francophone postcolonial studies at Southern Methodist University. Klappentext Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, revealing the deep interconnectedness of the past with the recent situation of North Africa. Insecurity is not the consequence of a society perceived as uncivilized, but rather the result of an indecent society. Zusammenfassung Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, revealing the deep interconnectedness of the past with the recent situation of North Africa. Insecurity is not the consequence of a society perceived as uncivilized, but rather the result of an indecent society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Homo Expendibilis In North Africa Chapter One: Memento Mori: The Living Dead Of Colonial Algeria Chapter Two: The Immigrant Body As Body Of Exception Chapter Three: Women Body, Pathological Body Chapter Four: Precarious Lives: Slum Dwellers And Social Outcasts Conclusion: Decentering The Center, Recentering The Periphery

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• Authors: Herve Anderson Tchumkam, Hervé Anderson Tchumkam
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2023
• EAN: 9781793640772
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-077-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Social issues & processes, Literary studies: general, North Africa, Social and ethical issues, Marginality;North Africa;philosophy;postcolonialism