RT Journal Article
T1 ‘A tongue tells a thousand truths’: narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet's Chocolate Creams and Dollars
T2 'Una lengua cuenta mil verdades': narración, traducción e ilustración en Chocolate Creams and Dollars, de Mohamed Mrabet
A1 Simour, Lhoussain
A1 Porras Sánchez, María
AB 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 Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interventions – Mrabet's story, Bowles's translation and Taaffe's art – the novel is contrapuntal, since each creator presents a different – and often conflicting – point of view. The three of them are observers who record Morocco's ‘Interzone’ from different angles and cultural agendas. This paper seeks to understand these networks of collaborative connections as they pertain to transcultural contacts, exploring the sexual, cross-cultural, textual and visual discourses running through the narrative fabrics. It analyses Bowles's slippages in authority and in authorship and Taaffe's objectifying and exotifying gaze, and how Driss, Mrabet's protagonist, turns his ethnographic gaze back upon the Westerners. It finally argues that Mrabet's novel, through the symbolic appropriation of experiences with Westerners, articulates intricate discourses on the construction of a cultural identity at the crossroads of neocolonial ventures and postcolonial anxieties.
PB Taylor and Francis
SN 1362-9387
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100774
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100774
LA eng
NO María Porras Sánchez & Lhoussain Simour (2021) ‘A tongue tells a thousand truths’: narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet's Chocolate Creams and Dollars, The Journal of North African Studies, 26:3, 527-551, DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2019.1706168
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 abr 2025