Publication: Orientalismos: exilio, alteridad y cultura árabe en la obra de Paul Bowles
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2016-11-07
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Orientalismos: exilio, alteridad y cultura árabe en la obra de Paul Bowles propone un recorrido por la obra del escritor norteamericano centrándose en sus trabajos realizados durante sus viajes por el norte de África y sus casi cincuenta años como expatriado en Marruecos, incluyendo las novelas El cielo protector (1949) y La casa de la araña (1955), distintos ensayos de viajes, varios poemas, numerosos relatos breves, diferentes traducciones de autores marroquíes y Points in Time (1992), una historia lírica de Marruecos. El objetivo de la tesis es revisar el papel de Paul Bowles dentro de la tradición literaria Orientalista en el Magreb y determinar en qué sentido es continuador de esta tradición o bien rupturista, ofreciendo una alternativa a la tradicional lectura poscolonialista de su obra a la luz del nuevo marco teórico del cosmopolitismo. La tesis aborda una lectura triple de la obra de Paul Bowles (1910-1999) que, en mi opinión, se corresponde con tres fases literarias que el autor desarrollará en Marruecos y que, a su vez, responden a tres sensibilidades distintas que irán evolucionando con el paso de los años. La primera es una lectura orientalista de sus ensayos de viajes estableciendo una comparativa con la tradición literaria anglo-americana en el Magreb desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta bien entrado el siglo XX. A continuación, rastrearemos elementos de esta tradición hasta su novela El cielo protector. La segunda sección propone una lectura desde el punto de vista de la antropología, que se corresponde con una etapa de mayor interés por la cultura popular y las heterodoxas tradiciones y creencias marroquíes...
Orientalisms: Exile, Alterity and Arabic Culture in the Writings of Paul Bowles is a journey through the works the North American author created while he was traveling through North African and living in Morocco as an expatriate for nearly fifty years. To this purpose, I will study in depth the novels The Sheltering Sky (1949) and The Spider’s House (1955) and I will also focus on different travel essays, several poems, a number of poems, numerous short stories, various translations of fiction and non-fiction works by Moroccan authors and, finally, Points in Time (1992), a lyrical history of Morocco. The goal of this dissertation is to reexamine the role of Paul Bowles within the Orientalist literary tradition of the Maghrib and to establish in what ways he follows this trend or rather departs from it, with the intention of complementing the postcolonial reading of his works with the recent theoretical framework of cosmopolitanism. The dissertation tackles a threefold approach to the writings of Paul Bowles (1910- 1999), that, in my opinion, matches with three literary stages developed by the author in Morocco. In turn, these stages are connected to three different sensitivities that will evolve as time went by. The first approach displays an Orientalist reading of his travel essays, comparing them with the literary tradition in English language set in North Africa since the end of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century...
Orientalisms: Exile, Alterity and Arabic Culture in the Writings of Paul Bowles is a journey through the works the North American author created while he was traveling through North African and living in Morocco as an expatriate for nearly fifty years. To this purpose, I will study in depth the novels The Sheltering Sky (1949) and The Spider’s House (1955) and I will also focus on different travel essays, several poems, a number of poems, numerous short stories, various translations of fiction and non-fiction works by Moroccan authors and, finally, Points in Time (1992), a lyrical history of Morocco. The goal of this dissertation is to reexamine the role of Paul Bowles within the Orientalist literary tradition of the Maghrib and to establish in what ways he follows this trend or rather departs from it, with the intention of complementing the postcolonial reading of his works with the recent theoretical framework of cosmopolitanism. The dissertation tackles a threefold approach to the writings of Paul Bowles (1910- 1999), that, in my opinion, matches with three literary stages developed by the author in Morocco. In turn, these stages are connected to three different sensitivities that will evolve as time went by. The first approach displays an Orientalist reading of his travel essays, comparing them with the literary tradition in English language set in North Africa since the end of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Filología Inglesa II (Literatura de los Paises de Lengua Inglesa), leída el 18-01-2016