%0 Book
%A Henriette Louwerse
%D 2021
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Homeless Entertainment
%B On Hafid Bouazza’s Literary Writing
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102569
%X Hafid Bouazza is a highly influential and celebrated author in the Netherlands today. In the context of contemporary Dutch literature, Bouazza’s Moroccan background still marks a divergence from the born-and-bred Dutch norm. Authors with a bi- or multicultural background are still often cast in the role of ‘exotic outsider’. Bouazza both challenges and uses this position to the full. His writing demonstrates that the perceived us-them or self-other positions are questionable ideological constructs. He undermines the concept of a unified culture and the wholeness of the self. He explores and exploits stereotypical beliefs held on both sides of the East–West divide. The result is a magical realist setting that both puzzles and enchants. This book offers a reading of Bouazza’s literary prose that responds to the interpretative opportunities offered by an author who skilfully and creatively explores his peculiar freedom in his Homeless Entertainment.
%K Bouazza, Hafid, Netherlands author, Outsider, Home, Identity, Multicultural, Homelessness
%G English