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Postcolonial Literature and Democracy?
Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights
Of Darkness and Light in Algeria
What and Where Is a People?
The Democracy of Literature
Part I: Thinking Politics and Aesthetics
1 Democracy, Citizenship, and Postcolonial Politics
Postcolonial Histories and Politics
Why Rancière and Balibar?
Who and Where Is the Subject of Politics?
Rethinking a Politics of Equality and Emancipation
Citizenship, or a Democratic Politics of Civility
Politics, Democracy, and Equality
Democratic Citizenship and the Question of Rights
Which Political Community, the Nation or the World?
2 Metaphor, or, the Folding Thread between Aesthetics and Politics
The Incalculable Rupture between Aesthetics and Politics
Metaphor and the Rationality of Disagreement
Metaphor: Sense and/or Sense?
Kant, Metaphor, and the Aesthetic Idea
3 The Potentiality of the Utopic Imaginary in Postcolonial Fiction
Foucault and a Thought of the Present
Fiction, Possibility, and Impossibility
The Possibilities of Foucault’s Heterotopias
The Political Power of Utopia
Utopic Mode or Utopic Genre?
Possibility, Potentiality, and Actuality
Part II: Reading Aesthetics and Politics
4 Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout’s L’invention du désert
The Experimentation of the Nation
The Politics of the Nation
5 The Dreams of the Just: Allegorizing the Community of Brotherhood in Tahar Djaout’s Les vigiles and Le dernier été de la raison
Reconstructing the Body Politic
Le dernier été de la raison
6 Paradises Lost But Not Regained: The Politics of Utopia and Dystopia in Rachid Mimouni’s Le fleuve détourné and La malédiction
The Sensible Education of Le fleuve détourné
Utopias and Dystopias in Le fleuve détourné
In the Beginning Was the Word
Paradise Reframed: La malédiction
Si Morice and the Impasse of Revolutionary Violence
Utopian Extravaganza in La malédiction
Of Dissidence and Democracy in La malédiction
7 The Novel Secularism of Rachid Mimouni’s L’honneur de la tribu
Secularism and Education: The Case of Algeria
Secularity, Secularism, and Ideology
The Secular Education of L’honneur de la tribu
Conclusion: “For God’s Sake, Open the Universal a Little More!”
Revolution, Humanism, and Terror
Metaphors of Invention and Dissension
：Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel
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