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Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis

Anderson Tchumkam, Hervé

Hardcover

Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1793640750
ISBN13: 9781793640758
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 12 2021
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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