![]() ![]() ![]() instead of regarding the writings of Moroccan nationals as part of Maghrebi literature, critics are now becoming more sensitive to the unique features of this literature, against the backdrop of a colonial and postcolonial history that is markedly different from that of the two other countries of the reduced Maghreb: Algeria and Tunisia.1 Literary fiction texts can serve as evidence in a similar fashion as empirically based political or social observations processes represented within and implicit around fictional works, which can be discerned by a reader or inter- preter, convey a reality or veracity about their geopolitical locations that is germane as, say, statistical data or sociological field work or political reports (Gupta, “Literary studies” 873). The unprecedented social and political developments that are taking place in Morocco today have also generated a renewed interest in the country’s literary production. This essay develops key connections along lateral axes with other Moroccan litera- tures written in Castilian/spanish, Catalan, and English through a transcolonial per- spective.
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