Middle Ground. International Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters, n°2, décembre 2008

The second issue (N2/ Dec. 2008) of Middle Ground, International Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters has been released by the Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication. It is a set of papers that deal with the topical theme of ‘Writing and History.' And the authors belong to different universities from Europe and Africa (Morocco, Egypt, France, Germany, and Croatia.) Below is the list of papers:

Khalid  Chaouch  (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco)

English Travel Accounts as a Source of Moroccan History.

Mohamed Rakii   (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco)

Narrativizing History: a Study of Wyndham Lewis's Journey into Barbary.

M. Lmustapha Mamaoui (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco)

Berber Kasbah-art in Wyndham Lewis's Journey into Barbary.

Jacqueline Jondot  (Toulouse Le Mirail University, France).

A Boy, a Raïs, and a Dam: Jamal Mahjoub's Nubian Indigo.

Isabelle Roblin  (University of Littoral-Côte d'Opale, France)

Re-assessing the Past: a Parallel Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1988).

Martina Häcker (University of Potsdam, Germany)

History and Tradition: The Background to Scott's Tale Of Old Mortality.

Elisabeth Delattre (University of Artois, Arras, France)

Macrocosm and Microcosm in The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell.

Sally Michael (6 October University, Cairo, Egypt)

Nation as 'Replaceable Imagination' in Elmaz Abinader's In the Country of My Dreams.

Cherki Karkaba  (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco)

Personal and National History in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.

Joëlle Bonnevin (University of La Rochelle, France)

The Representation of Major Armed Conflicts in Love Medicine and The Beet Queen.

Mohamed-Sghir Syad (Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco)

Gendering Black History/Race-ing Historical Representation in Toni Morrison's Paradise.

Biljana Oclopcic (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijec, Croatia)

“Whiteness” as Property: the (De)Construction of ‘Whiteness' in W. Faulkner's Light in August.

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