··· lezzter Preis 71.10 ··· 9783848482412 ··· 1036124610 ··· This study of Paul Bowles s North African writings, especially those concerned with Morocco, investigates the possibilities and limitations that accrued from the writer`s carefully maintained reputation as both a traveler (a translator of the exotic ) and as exile. The book offsets claims (by critics by Paul Bowles himself) to a putative freedom from national, cultural, or religious loyalties and challenges his status as `expert` on Muslim North African countries. Bowles`s North African writings are embedded in an imperialist discursive tradition and the `authority` of his textual representations feeds on the tropes of detachment and `invisibility` empowered and fostered by the myth of exile and/or expatriation. Bowles became regarded as such an authority that his travel and journalistic writings were literally assigned as `missions.` The financial comfort allowed by publishers` advances did not go without its concomitant share of political `contamination,` especially since, at the time, the North African countries were engaged in their independence wars... Hersteller: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Marke: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing EAN: 9783848482412 Kat: Hardcover/Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik/Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft Lieferzeit: Print on Demand Versandkosten: Ab 20¤ Versandkostenfrei in Deutschland Icon: https://www.inforius-bilder.de/bild/?I=uVSNw3uqeQfKVOulRrWwwG0agAWigwbYmwcT3Psoptk%3D Bild: