Encontres mediterraneennes: litteratures et cultures France-Maghreb.(Book review)

Publication: Research in African Literatures

Publication Date: 22-DEC-07

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BY MIREILLE ROSELLO Paris: L Harmattan, 2006. 272pp. ISBN 2-296-01466-6. 023,50.

If terms such as "hybridity" and "transculturation" have turned into rather facile buzzwords too often bandied about by postcolonial critics, then Mireille Rosello's new study Encontres mediterraneennes offers a refreshing alternative framework for the theorisation of intercultural exchange. In the place of any implication of smooth cultural transfer, Rosello's "encontre" names an ambivalent encounter and conveys both communication and conflict. Playing both on the negative connotations of the phrase "a l'encontre de" 'contrary to, and on the use...

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