ABSTRACT

This article argues that the subversive overtones in Aḥmad al-Madīnī's novel Zaman bayna l-wilāda wa l-ḥulm (Time between Birth and Dream, 1974) target two distinct poles of authority, textual and extra-textual. The novel adopts what I call “a poetics of dissent,” with a penchant for rebellion against the classical Arabic novel-seen as a subset of the European realist novel-and the Arab-Moslem heritage. Published a few years after the 1967 Naksa, and two failed coups d'état in 1971 and 1972 in Morocco, the novel paints a gloomy picture of life in Morocco and the Arab world. The novel's experimental gymnastics is an attempt to achieve a formal shift in literary technique and an ideological shift in the politics of literary representation. A politization of form that goes hand in hand with a formalization of politics emerges as a critical dialectic in Zaman and by extension Moroccan experimental literature post-Independence.

摘要

本文认为，Aḥmadal-Madīnī的小说《Zaman baynal-wilādawa l-ulm》（《生与死之间的时间》，1974年）的颠覆性泛泛指向了两个截然不同的权威方向，即文本权威和超文本权威。这部小说采用了我所谓的“持不同政见者的诗意”，并倾向于反抗作为欧洲写实小说一部分的古典阿拉伯小说以及阿拉伯穆斯林的传统。在1967年的纳卡（Naksa）出版几年后出版，两次政变失败。小说分别于1971年和1972年在摩洛哥出版，描绘了摩洛哥和阿拉伯世界生活的阴暗面。小说的实验体操是试图实现文学技术上的形式转变和文学表征政治上的意识形态转变。政治形式化与政治形式齐头并进，这在扎曼语中是一种批判的辩证法，并由此扩展为摩洛哥独立后的实验文学。