Lexington Books
Pages: 214
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-4985-4802-1 • Hardback • January 2018 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-4985-4803-8 • eBook • January 2018 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
Bouchra Benlemlih is professor in the department of English at Ibn Zohr University.
Foreword by Allen Hibbard
Introduction – Realizing the Textual Space: Meta-fictional Speculations in Paul Bowles’s Work
Chapter 1 – Moroccan Oral Stories: Translation and Mediation
Chapter 2 – Without Stopping: The Memory of that Memory
Chapter 3 – Selected Fiction: The Myth of the Fall into Modernity
Conclusion – Morocco: Paul Bowles’ Peripheral Centre
Bouchra Benlemlih’s knowledgeable and theoretically informed study of Paul Bowles’s engagement with Morocco as a translator, short-story writer, novelist, autobiographer, and traveller-flâneur has helped us situate the American writer at the liminal threshold where allegiances and alienations, exteriorities and interiorities, Western and Muslim societies, are tied together through the mediation of this North African gateway.
— Paul Jahshan, Notre Dame University
Benlemlih puts before us things we may have noticed and thought about before, yet with her own inflection, keen insights, fresh perspective, and voice. Her focus here is on liminality—various kinds of liminal spaces—mediation, and in-betweenness. This approach is at once appropriate and fruitful, allowing her to explore connections between geographic and poetic space in Paul Bowles’s life and work.
— Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee State University