Political Contesting of Migration and Multiculturalism in Hafid Bouazza’s “The Crossing” ...

This article discusses the Moroccan-Dutch literary writings and how it reflect a developing transnational cosmopolitanism that criticizes the unequal power relationship between the north and south. On the one hand, Benali’s fiction focuses the reader's attention on the social reality of the immigrants and on the global issues such as the capitalist greed for huge profits and the concomitant unscrupulous support of dictatorships and corruption, rather than dwelling on concerns of culture and identification. On the other hand, Bouazza is thought to have more concern with hybridizing his stances... Mehr ...