Josh Shoemake

Tangier (eBook, ePUB)

A Literary Guide for Travellers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women breaking through artistic borders. The results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time and the list of outlaw originals is long, stretching from Ibn Battuta and Alexandre Dumas to Twain and Wharton and from the darkly brilliant Beats of Bowles, Kerouac, Gysin and Ginsberg to the great Moroccan novelists: Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Mrabet and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857733764
• Artikelnr.: 41288688

Autorenporträt

Josh Shoemake read English at Columbia. He has lived in Morocco since 1996. He spent three years in Tangier, where he taught literature and formed close friendships with Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri and other local artists and writers. He then served for five years as headmaster of The American School of Marrakech and has published stories about Tangier in The Threepenny Review and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

List of IllustrationsMap1. Introduction: The Edge of the Known World2. The Port3. Tanger Plage- Malabata4. The Kasbah5. The Medina6. The Petit Socco7. The Grand Socco8. Dean's Bar-Hotel Minzah9. Gran Cafe de Paris-New Town10. Boulevard Pasteur11. Hotel Rembrandt-Villa Muniria12. The Marshan13. To Merkala Beach14. The Old Mountain15. San Francisco- Immeuble Itesa16. Iberia17. The New Mountain18. Cap Spartel-Caves of Hercules-Sidi Kacem19. Asilah and LaracheAuthor ProfilesChronologySelect BibliographyIndex

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