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The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi’s texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities. Calling attention to the ambiguous status of autobiographical discursive and textual elements in Memmi’s work, Brozgal shifts the focus from the author to theoretical questions. Against Autobiography places Memmi’s writing and thought in dialogue with several major critical shifts in the late twentieth-century literary and cultural landscape. These shifts include the crisis of the authorial subject; the interrogation of the form of the novel; the resistance to the hegemony of vision; and the critique of colonialism. Showing how Memmi’s novels and essays produce theories that resonate both within and beyond their original contexts, Brozgal argues for allowing works of francophone Maghrebi literature to be read as complex literary objects, that is, not simply as ethnographic curios but as generating elements of literary theory on their own terms.

Necromancer trainee, book seller, novel writer Ava Harper is settling into her new life with friends and her houseguests. And she definitely isn’t thinking about a certain hunky sheriff who pops in unannounced at every turn. And mostly ignoring her devilish new neighbor, a lingering Christmas present from herself. She has bigger things to worry about. Like learning her newly woken powers. And convincing her house that she isn’t selling it so it will stop scaring off any visitors. Plus, she’s teaching a ghoul to use a computer. Why shouldn’t he? He can’t talk, he might as well be able to use social media. Her life gets more complicated when the local coven decides Ava has dodged them for long enough. She doesn’t have any interest in joining the coven. She’s everything they turn their nose up at. A necromancer with a weird ability to heal people. But they want her. When other coven members fall victim to freak accidents, Ava is sure something dark is at play. And the more Ava learns about the so-called accidents the more her past haunts her. Once again, she puts her trust in her friends—and the deliciously mysterious man in charge of the local law enforcement—to get to the bottom of whoever is targeting witches.

Absent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. This corpus, or anarchive, includes a variety of cultural texts whose formal, diegetic, and discursive strategies represent the massacre and its erasure, its "becoming invisible," and its afterlives as a trace, a memory, a sign.

Lies and manipulations have long been part of social life, but the rise of Trump and Trumpism has made these practices excessively blatant and obscene, challenging our ability to respond effectively. This book explores this shift through sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and communicological perspectives, analysing the emergence of a new form of lying and manipulation—anti-/non-/post-truthful, anti-/non-/post-ethical, and anti-/non-/post-reflexive. Using the Slovenian case of Trump-inspired practices, Kotnik presents an analytical model of resistance as a means of self-empowerment against these disruptive and harmful tactics. She examines how open liars and transparent manipulators have become socially tolerable in our increasingly "mentirocratic" societies and argues that it is crucial to resist these practices both in principle and in action. Kotnik's work offers a stimulating investigation into why the open lie and transparent manipulation have become socially acceptable and why they must be actively opposed.

Rather than the gore and horror of Remember My Name, co-author Lia Sadako pulls Nicole in a far different direction--Mini-Sparta, in its script-formatted glory, promises vivid action scenes, inspirational dialogue, and wild, witty tangents.A Very Mini-Spartan Story tells the tale of a group of teen writers in a chatroom--that isn't just a chat room. As they submerge themselves further into the chat, it begins to grow and become some-thing much more creepy: a whole new dimension. Soon enough, a malicious member of the founding four has trapped them inside while the writers are too busy enjoying their wild new adventures to pay attention. What happens next? Read on.

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Memmi's first-person narratives are doubly subversive: by employing the first-person pronoun they contravene Jewish and Arabic literary traditions, historically distrustful of the "I," while at the same time thwarting the "mark of the plural"--The notion that the non-Western individual necessarily represents the non-Western collectivity. The third chapter explores the recurrent tropes of blindness and the visual in Memmi's novels (La Statue de sel, Le Scorpion) and essays (L'Ecriture colorée, Le Nomade immobile). Whereas the representation of blindness appears to function as a critique of interpretation, aligning Memmi's oeuvre with the antiocularcentric discourse promulgated by many of his contemporaries, tropes of vision and an interest in the representative capacity of the visual complicate the initial reading. The final chapter historicizes and analyzes Portrait du colonisé précédé du Portrait du colonisateur as a literary artifact, while at the same time examining the role of the paratext--particularly Sartre's preface--in shaping readings of the essay.

A mom to be is on her own as the father of the baby doesn't want to be any part of the deal with being attached to her or the baby. He is a druggy and she wants to raise the child and away from him. She loads up and heads south to where her friend lives only to end up that her friend is dating an idiot drunk herself. She falls head over heals for a man that she would never had expected to. She has a turn in her pregnancy to make a change in her life.This is a must read! Anyone that loves romance, pregnancy, life changing events and things similar to that, will absolutely love this book.