Poetics of the Native

Yosra Amraoui · Bootheina Majoul

2021年2月 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Natives, Aborigines, Indigenous populations, and First Nations are all appellations that assert the legitimacy of various antecessors despite the subordinate position granted to them by colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial theories. In a perpetual quest for agency, the native has been framed within a set of representational practices that claim for a redress of grievances.

Cultural, mediatized and historical representations of the native tend to fall within the boundaries of either a bottom-up or a top-down view that fits within a structuralist paradigm that rarely questions the individual, let alone the marginalized. However, there is a need to examine the systems within which indigenous narratives operate from a post-structuralist stance in order to re-read indigenous discourses and to celebrate the multiplicity of meanings inherent in them. The need for an intercultural pragmatic reading of native discourse therefore reveals itself to be of utmost relevance.

This volume discusses indigenous literary performances, native history and cultural representations of natives and aboriginal discourse from around the world. Topics pivot around historicizing the native, the role of testimony and primary sources, displacement and the denial of native legitimacy, and literary (mis)representations of natives, among other themes.

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Yosra Amraoui is an Associate Professor of English Language, Literature and Civilization at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Manouba, Tunisia. Her areas of research revolve around historiography, media studies, and testimonial narratives. She has published several articles in national and international journals, and is the co-editor of the volume On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics (2020).

Bootheina Majoul is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. She holds an MA in Cross Cultural Poetics from the University of Carthage, and a PhD in English Language and Literature/Letters from the University of Manouba, Tunisia. She has published two books and several academic articles and poetry collections, and edited two volumes, including her most recent publications, Terrorism in Literature: Examining a Global Phenomenon (2019) and On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics (2020).