Ali al-Du'aji and al-'alam al-adabi (The Literary World): a voice of the Tunisian avant-garde under colonial rule (1930-1936)
Ali al-Du'aji and al-'alam al-adabi (The Literary World): a voice of the Tunisian avant-garde under colonial rule (1930-1936)
Under French colonisation, Tunisian intellectuals, with al-Snusi at the head, sought to create an Arabic language literary periodical al-'alam al-adabi (The Literary World) in the 1930s that attempted to create a national identity and define a national culture within an international context. A border zone, using Walter Mignolo's term, opens where colonial knowledges and local knowledges come together fuelling debates. This article examines the literary contributions of Ali al-Du'aji to a nationalist intellectual project that made use of a monthly, then weekly periodical. Al-Du'aji made use of literary colonial knowledge by subverting it to local knowledge in order to create a modern text that broke with traditional Arabic literary forms.
CITATION: Mamelouk, Douja Mariem. Ali al-Du'aji and al-'alam al-adabi (The Literary World): a voice of the Tunisian avant-garde under colonial rule (1930-1936) . : Taylor & Francis Group , 2016. Journal of North African Studies,Vol. 21, No. 5, December 2016, pp. 794-809 - Available at: https://library.au.int/ali-al-duaji-and-al-alam-al-adabi-literary-world-voice-tunisian-avant-garde-under-colonial-rule-19-0