Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Poetry is often understood as a series of deviations from linguistic norms, but Mohamed Hmoudane’s collections appear to be a systematic subversive strategy against both aesthetic conventions and prevailing assumptions about Eastern and Western identitarian categories. Published between 2003 and 2005, the works entitled Attentat, incandescence and Blanche mécanique avert poetic clichés as they invert cultural stereotypes, taking a most satirical stance toward the state of the world at the dawn of a new millenium. The pervasive sense of detachment resulting from Hmoudane’s satirical tendencies is associated with a poetics of excess, and this paradoxical union serves as a powerful aesthetic response to stale commonplaces about both poetry and cultural identity.
Recommended Citation
Abdelkader, Yamna
(2011)
"La poésie hors-normes de Mohamed Hmoudane ou l’art de la provocation,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 76:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol76/iss1/8
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