Maghrebi Fiction and Psychoanalysis

Recent fiction from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) in both French and Arabic has been preoccupied with mothers and fathers, gestation and regeneration, inheritance and transmission, filled with figures for desires and origins blocked or diverted. In this course, we will read Maghrebi literature together with works of psychoanalytic theory, focusing in particular on uncertain origins and aborted futures, geographies of the North African landscape and of the soul. Texts by Achaari, Berrada, Chraïbi, Djebar, Kateb, al-Koni, Mustaghanimi, Wattar; Deleuze & Guattari, Fanon, Freud, Jameson, Jung, Lacan. Students of French or Arabic invited to read in the original.