The Transcontinental Maghreb

Guest: 
Edwige Tamalet-Talbayev, Assistant Professor of French
November 21, 2012

Edwige Tamalet-Talbayev is an Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She is also affiliated with the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, as well as the Council on Middle East Studies and the African Studies Council at the MacMillan Center. Professor Tamalet-Talbayev’s research and teaching interests include: Maghrebi literature in a Mediterranean context; literature of the Maghrebi diaspora in French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian; Mediterranean studies; Orientalism; postcolonial literary and cultural theory; non-Western modernities and transnational modernisms. We talk with her about her forthcoming book, The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature in a Mediterranean Context.

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