Contesting the Classroom. Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityTo RSVP, please click here. Introduction, Madeleine Dobie Respondent, Sophia Mo Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a…