001479325 000__ 04353nam\a22008655i\4500 001479325 001__ 1479325 001479325 003__ DE-B1597 001479325 005__ 20240227003256.0 001479325 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479325 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479325 008__ 231025t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479325 020__ $$a9780823237999 001479325 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823237999$$2doi 001479325 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)554986 001479325 035__ $$a(OCoLC)647876436 001479325 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479325 0410_ $$aeng 001479325 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479325 050_4 $$aPQ3984$$b.Q33 2009 001479325 072_7 $$aLIT000000$$2bisacsh 001479325 1001_ $$aQader, Nasrin,$$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479325 24510 $$aNarratives of Catastrophe :$$bBoris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi /$$cNasrin Qader. 001479325 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bFordham University Press,$$c[2009] 001479325 264_4 $$c©2009 001479325 300__ $$a1 online resource (238 p.) 001479325 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479325 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479325 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479325 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479325 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIntroduction --$$t1. Becoming-Survivor --$$t2. Suffering Time --$$t3. Shadowing the Storyteller --$$t4. Un-limiting Thought --$$t5. Figuring the Wine-Bearer --$$tConclusion. Engendering Catastrophes --$$tNotes --$$tWorks Cited --$$tIndex 001479325 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479325 520__ $$aNarratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa. Qader's book begins by exploring the political implications of narrating catastrophic historical events. Through careful readings of singular literary texts on the genocide in Rwanda and on Tazmamart, a secret prison in Morocco under the reign of Hassan II, Qader shows how historical catastrophes enter language and how this language is marked by the catastrophe it recounts. Not satisfied with the extra-literary characterizations of catastrophe in terms of numbers, laws, and naming, she investigates the catastrophic in catastrophe, arguing that catastrophe is always an effect of language andthought,. The récit becomes a privileged site because the difficulties of thinking and speaking about catastrophe unfold through the very movements of storytelling.This book intervenes in important ways in the current scholarship in the field of African literatures. It shows the contributions of African literatures in elucidating theoretical problems for literary studies in general, such as storytelling's relationship to temporality, subjectivity, and thought. Moreover, it addresses the issue of storytelling, which is of central concern in the context of African literatures but still remains limited mostly to the distinction between the oral and the written. The notion of récit breaks with this duality by foregrounding the inaugural temporality of telling and of writing as repetition.The final chapters examine catastrophic turns within the philosophical traditions of the West and in Islamic thought, highlighting their interconnections and differences. 001479325 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479325 546__ $$aIn English. 001479325 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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