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Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa
- Homo Expendibilis
Engelsk Hardback
Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa
- Homo Expendibilis
Engelsk Hardback

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Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author analyzes social categories in relation to civil and social protections and in particular, the ways in which disruptions to these protections can lead to social degeneration. The author’s analysis starts from the premise that precarious lives in North Africa have become true bodies of exception. In other words, they are deemed dangerous, expendable and unworthy of the rights and treatment accorded to full citizens. Thus, the author assesses portrayals of violence in contemporary literature as a crystallization of the existing disjunction between the socially disqualified and those who wield colonial, political, and religious power. Moreover, the author argues that in order to understand contemporary politics and the current climate of insecurity, a deeper understanding of precarity in North Africa from colonial times to the present is crucial. By affirming their right to exist, the author argues that the marginal bodies of North Africa offer unique insights into the society that marginalized them and thus, from the often inaudible and invisible periphery, they nevertheless challenge the dominant ideas of the center.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
194
ISBN-13:
9781793640758
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1793640750
Udg. Dato:
12 mar 2021
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
12 mar 2021
Forfatter(e):
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