Récits méditerranéens

Undergraduate

In ‘Récits méditerranéens, pourtours mystiques I,’ we will focus on first-person narratives (ficitional and non-fictional, fictive and fictionalized) from across the modern Mediterranean Francophone world: Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. We will exhaust the politics of autobiography, autofiction and autoportraiture as we unravel the mystical underpinnings of texts by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Assia Djebar, Edmond Jabès, Abdelkébir Khatibi, Amin Maalouf, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Salah Stétié.