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Author / Creator:Kaddour, Hédi, author.
Uniform title:Prépondérants. English
Imprint:New Heaven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:The Margellos world republic of letters
Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subject:
Culture conflict -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
Culture conflict.
Nineteen twenties.
Tunisia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Tunisia.
Fiction.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541137
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Other authors / contributors:Fagan, Teresa Lavender, translator.
ISBN:9780300231571
0300231571
9780300222883
0300222882
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Sept. 11, 2017).
Summary:The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour's award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural collisions are the inevitable result in Hédi Kaddour's best-selling novel of French colonial rule and its persisting legacy of human chaos and cultural tragedy. In this commanding novel, the author plumbs the contradicti.
Other form:Print version: 9780300222883 0300222882
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PART I . THE SHOCK: NAHBÈS, NORTH AFRICA, THE EARLY 1920S
  • 1. A Tree in the Wind
  • 2. The Betrayal
  • 3. Honored Guests
  • 4. And ... Action!
  • 5. A Quintal and a Half
  • 6. The Old Woman and the Eggs
  • 7. The Cow of Satan
  • 8. A Sort of Tacit Agreement
  • 9. At a Nice School
  • 10. A Well-Planned Marriage
  • 11. The Story of the Ice
  • 12. A Lovely Summer
  • 13. An Eye on Everything
  • 14. Two Hatreds
  • 15. At the Market
  • 16. A Smiling Wife
  • 17. Troubled Times
  • 18. Big Problems
  • PART II . THE GREAT VOYAGE: WINTER 1922-SPRING 1923
  • 19. The Jugurtha
  • 20. Nights of Dreams
  • 21. The Hand
  • 22. Crossroads of Pain
  • 23. Brother and Sister
  • 24. A Night at Gabrielle's
  • 25. A Taste for Wealth
  • 26. Great Murmurings
  • 27. A Liberated Country
  • 28. The Suitor
  • 29. Kinder des Vaterlands
  • 30. For an Orchard
  • 31. In an Occupied Country
  • 32. The Smile on a Grilled Sheep's Head
  • 33. Otto
  • 34. Fascination
  • 35. The Return
  • PART III. ONE YEAR LATER: NAHBÈS, JUNE 1924
  • 36. A True Fox
  • 37. Scaradère
  • 38. A Mass Uprising
  • 39. The Prépondérants
  • 40. The Storm
  • 41. The Hunt
  • 42. An Edifying Spectacle
  • 43. The Face
  • 44. Ganthier's Party
  • 45. The Blaster
  • 46. The Barley Wind
  • 47. Equal Pay for Equal Work
  • 48. A Complex Operation
  • 49. Beasts from Hell
  • Glossary

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