Urban generations: Post-colonial cities
01-03 October 2004
Conference Abstracts
43. Sabil, Adbelkader; Faculty of Letters El Jadida: "Choukri, Mrabet and Charhadi or the Lost (Urban) Generation".
Writing or rather being translated within an international
zone, Tangier, Choukri, Mrabet, and Driss ben Ahmed Charhadi, through
the expatriate, Paul Bowles, have successfully managed to answer
to the urgent need to go urbanized/western with the hope to escape
the throes of marginalization. Still as a part of this world, they
could never achieve identity because they have been 'used'/'abused'
and even reduced to mere 'province(s) of knowledge'.
This paper tries to discuss a number of issues related
directly to the lives of Choukri, Mrabet, and Charhadi in Tangier,
with a particular emphasis on their desperate attempts to gain in
identity or to go Western/urbanized.
