Project description DEENESFRITPL Reading your way through countries of the Maghreb Cultural and religious pluralism will be studied in the three Maghreb North African states – Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The EU-funded TRANSECT project will explore how national and regional identity in the three States (which were encompassed by the French colonial project) has been reconstructed into multi-faceted paradigms, codes and modes of literary production. The project will focus on a homogeneous corpus of selected award-winning novels from 2009 to 2020, which are all centred around the themes of inter- and intra-religious dialogue, peaceful coexistence and pluralism in the Maghreb. The project will investigate how these novels address national issues and how they contribute to repositioning the image of the Maghreb within the Arab region. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective TRANSECT is a research project aiming to explore how the cultural and religious pluralism of the Maghreb is represented in the contemporary Maghrebi novel in Arabic and disseminated globally by means of the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (IPAF). The definition of Maghreb adopted by TRANSECT is a restricted one, only including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, the three States which were encompassed by the French colonial project.TRANSECT aims to explore the ways in which the national and regional identity of the Maghrebi countries has been re-constructed into multi-faceted paradigms, codes and modes of literary production. The scope of the research has been narrowed to a coherent and homogeneous corpus of selected novels drawn from the longlists of the IPAF from 2009 to 2020. The common thread of interest among these novels is both geographic and thematic, since they are all centred around the themes of inter- and intra-religious dialogue, peaceful coexistence and pluralism in the Maghreb. TRANSECT addresses two clusters of questions: 1) Which idea of the Maghreb is shaped by the novels longlisted at IPAF and sold by Abu Dhabi? How is this “Maghreb pluriel” appropriated and marketed by the Emirati cultural policymakers? Which purposes of cultural diplomacy does it serve?2) To what extent and how do these novels address national issues before aspiring to become pieces of World literature? How do they contribute to reposition the image of the Maghreb within the Arab region? How does this literature dialogue with national reconciliation processes, contributing to cultural peacebuilding through the construction of a non-exclusionary national identity? Fields of science social sciencessociologyanthropologycultural anthropologyhumanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionreligions Keywords Maghreb Arabic novel book prizes postcolonialism pluralism religion intellectual history diversity nationalism Gulf United Arab Emirates Morocco Tunisia Algeria pacific coexistence Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA Net EU contribution € 223 245,12 Address Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 00185 Roma Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 223 245,12 Partners (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all Partner Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement. UNIVERSITE INTERNATIONALE DE RABAT Morocco Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address ROCADE RABAT SALE TECHNOPOLIS SALA AL JADIDA 11100 Sala Al Jadida See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 137 508,48
