French Literature Reviews - 2026

B. Benbella, Francophone Maghrebi Writers
Francophone and Oral Literatures

Bouchra Benbella, Ecrivains maghrébins francophones

Paris: L'Harmattan, 2020.

286 p.

EAN 9782343213620

29.00 EUR

Publisher's overview:

Francophone Maghrebi literature is firmly rooted in the postmodern movement. The cultural and aesthetic trends among Maghrebi writers focus on openness and the inclusion of difference; they embody a stance of skepticism, irony, or rejection of metanarratives; they favor an aesthetic of discontinuity and generic heterogeneity, while subtly blurring and interweaving the boundaries between fiction and reality. Through this postmodern framework, the book examines a corpus of eighteen Francophone Maghrebi texts written between 1981 and 2017.

Bouchra Benbella is a professor at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco. She is a member of the Communication, Interculturality, Heritage, and Sustainable Development research unit.

Since the late twentieth century, Francophone literature from the Maghreb has been increasingly associated with postmodernism. This literary movement is characterized by a skepticism toward grand narratives, a preference for fragmented structures, and generic heterogeneity. In Ecrivains maghrébins francophones, Bouchra Benbella examines a corpus of eighteen Francophone Maghrebi texts written between 1981 and 2017, analyzing how they reflect these aesthetic trends.

The author, a professor at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco, is a member of the Communication, Interculturality, Heritage, and Sustainable Development research unit. Readers interested in contemporary North African literature, postcolonial studies, and postmodern narrative theory may find this study of Maghrebi writing relevant.