Postcolonial Fluid Zones in Mohammed Mrabet’s Narrative

Postcolonial Fluid Zones in Mohammed Mrabet’s Narrative

Available online: 27 Mar 2012
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Postcolonial FluidZonesofPossibilitiesin Mohammed Mrabet’sLookandMoveOn: RetrievingSubalternityandNegotiating Sexuality
expatriateAmericanwriters,around1960andthroughhisclosefriendshipwiththem,healsometvery eminentliteraryfiguresofthetime,suchasTennesseeWilliams,WilliamBurroughsandAlfredChester, amongothers.Mrabetisilliteratebuthasexcelledintheartofstorytelling.Bowlestaped,transcribedand translated most of his works: Love with a Few Hairs (1967), The Lemon (1969), M’Hashish (1969), The Boy who Set the Fire and Other Stories (1975), Hadidan Aharam (1975), The Beach Cafe´and the Voice (1976), Harmless Poisons (1976), Look and Move On (1976), Marriage with Papers (1986), among others. 2Greg Mullins (2002) Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs and Chester Write Tangier (Madison: University of Wisconsin), p. 5. Colonial Affairs is an insightful account of the ways colonialism and sexuality structure each other in the literature written…