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Stranges, Peter Bartles.

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Rebellion and nihilism in the works of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul (Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rebellion and nihilism in the works of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul (Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago)./
Author:	Stranges, Peter Bartles.
Description:	237 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1020.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3168142
ISBN:	9780542038259

Rebellion and nihilism in the works of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul (Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago).
Stranges, Peter Bartles.

Rebellion and nihilism in the works of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul (Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago). - 237 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1020.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rice University, 2005.

This study proposes that Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul, two widely-read contemporary novelists, intuitively understand Albert Camus' idea of revolt, using it to legitimate their non-essentialized, transcultural models of individual and collective identity. This dissertation views an Algerian teenager's rendezvous with Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul in Les Carnets de Sherazade as a magical portal through which Leila Sebbar allows us to see her fiction as a subversion and a reappropriation of the liberal philosophical principles underlying V. S. Naipaul's novels and travel journals. Although they interpret the increasing visibility of cultural, racial, and religious fundamentalisms in Western and non-Western societies as signs of a gathering nihilistic storm, neither Sebbar nor Naipaul believe that these epistemologically bounded ideologies of revolt are invincible. Instead, both depict rebellion, an epistemologically open-ended and altruistic form of revolt, as the exclusive means through which post-colonials across the globe can experience individual and communal wholeness---liberty, equality, fraternity, and peace---amidst the eponymous mixing of different peoples and truths in the late twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780542038259Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Rebellion and nihilism in the works of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul (Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago).
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