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Volume 11, Numéro 2, Pages 85-100
2026-03-12
Remapping The Geographies Of North African Anglophone Literature: Towards Transcending The Legacy Of Literary Apartheid
Authors : Aggabou Houria .
Abstract
North African Anglophone writing is burgeoning as a dynamic yet under-recognized literary field at the crossroads of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Set between the overarching Arabophone and Francophone literary traditions of the Maghreb and the globally canonized Anglophone literature of sub-Saharan Africa, this literature occupies a peripheral position both geographically and epistemically. This article examines the conditions of this marginalisation, tracing how colonial histories, racialised geographies, and institutional biases have constructed a literary cartography that excludes English-language writing from North Africa. It also explores how writers from Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Morocco have used English to articulate hybrid identities, diasporic belonging, and resistance to neocolonial and global hegemonies. By engaging a postcolonial theoretical framework, the study argues that North African Anglophone literature challenges established canons and destabilises the inherited binaries of “North African” versus “African”. Ultimately, this growing corpus calls for a rethinking of African literary geography itself, one that recognises North African English voices as essential contributors to the transnational and multilingual twenty-first-century African literature.
Keywords
Exclusion ; North African Anglophone literature ; 21st century African literature ; Diasporic transnationalism
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