Metaphors of Invention and Dissension : Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel.

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissonant Algeria -- Postcolonial Literature and Democracy? -- Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Of Darkness and Light in Algeria -- What and Where Is a People? -- The Democracy of Literature -- Part I: Thinking Politics and Aesthetics -- 1 Democracy, Citizenship, and Postcolonial Politics -- Postcolonial Histories and Politics -- Why Rancière and Balibar? -- Who and Where Is the Subject of Politics? -- Why Democracy? -- Rethinking a Politics of Equality and Emancipation -- Citizenship, or a Democratic Politics of Civility -- Politics, Democracy, and Equality -- Democratic Citizenship and the Question of Rights -- Which Political Community, the Nation or the World? -- What Is a Nation? -- 2 Metaphor, or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics -- The Incalculable Rupture between Aesthetics and Politics -- On Fiction and Politics -- Metaphor and the Rationality of Disagreement -- Metaphor: Sense and/or Sense? -- Kant, Metaphor, and the Aesthetic Idea -- By Way of a Conclusion -- 3 The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction -- Postcolonial Utopias? -- Foucault and a Thought of the Present -- Fiction, Possibility, and Impossibility -- The Possibilities of Foucault's Heterotopias -- The Political Power of Utopia -- Utopic Mode or Utopic Genre? -- Possibility, Potentiality, and Actuality -- Part II: Reading Aesthetics and Politics -- 4 Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention du désert -- On National Allegory -- Inventing the Desert -- Inventing the Nation -- The Experimentation of the Nation -- The Politics of the Nation -- 5 The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout's Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison -- Les vigiles.

Reinventing the Nation -- Reconstructing the Body Politic -- Le dernier été de la raison -- Dystopian Aesthetics -- Aesthetic Dissension -- The Logic of Sense -- 6 Paradises Lost But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni's Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction -- The Sensible Education of Le fleuve détourné -- Utopias and Dystopias in Le fleuve détourné -- A Dystopian Fable? -- Fables of Dystopia -- In the Beginning Was the Word -- Paradise Reframed: La malédiction -- Si Morice and the Impasse of Revolutionary Violence -- Utopian Extravaganza in La malédiction -- Of Dissidence and Democracy in La malédiction -- The Politics of Utopia -- 7 The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni's L'honneur de la tribu -- Secularism and Education: The Case of Algeria -- Secularity, Secularism, and Ideology -- The Secular Education of L'honneur de la tribu -- In Guise of a Conclusion -- Conclusion: "For God's Sake, Open the Universal a Little More!" -- Revolution, Humanism, and Terror -- Universal Civility -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This book engages with recent philosophical interventions into democracy, equality, and human rights to demonstrate their relevance to the field of Francophone Postcolonial Studies. The book explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel.

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