XI — Beyond orientalism: the constants of “Sahara literature”
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Abstract
“Amer to know, that you get out of the journey! The world, monotone and small, today, Hier, tomorrow, always gives us our image: an oasis of horror in a breath desert!” Charles Baudelaire will refer here to the desert as a framework of experience, as opposed not only to indoor spaces, but more generally, to colonising and distorting civilisation, because in literary texts the desert often appears to be a utopian origin or something else. Its vacuum reveals on...