Defining 'In between definition': Jamal Mahjoub and Modern African Literature

Document Type Article Abstract By exploring the recent novels of Afro-European writer Jamal Mahjoub, the author considers questions of exile, audience, and postcolonialism. Mahjoub, he argues, is an important writer because he addresses questions of identity through traditional literary forms such as the travel narrative and a lens of existentialist humanism which is more radical in postcolonial contexts than in first world countries who are heirs of the "humanist tradition." Repository...