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‘A tongue tells a thousand truths’: narration, translation and illustration in Mohamed Mrabet's Chocolate Creams and Dollars 'Una lengua cuenta mil verdades': narración, traducción e ilustración en Chocolate Creams and Dollars, de Mohamed Mrabet Simour, Lhoussain Porras Sánchez, María 811.111 Morocco Mohamed Mrabet Paul Bowles Cultural contacts Translation Cultural illustration Filología inglesa Traducción e interpretación 5701.07 Lengua y Literatura 5701.12 Traducción 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. Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y Literatura Fac. de Filología TRUE pub 2024-02-09T09:45:24Z 2024-02-09T09:45:24Z 2019 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100774 1362-9387 10.1080/13629387.2019.1706168 1743-9345 eng 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 restricted access application/pdf Taylor and Francis