'A tongue tells a thousand truths': narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet's Chocolate Creams and Dollars.
This study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moro...
| Publicado en: | Journal of North African Studies Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 527 - 552 |
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May2021
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