Modern Novel

"The Modern Novel : Writing the Other and the Elsewhere" is a collective work edited by Mohamed Daoud, published in 2006 by the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC). The book compiles the proceedings of an international conference dedicated to the representation of "the Other" and "the Elsewhere" in the modern novel, thereby analyzing how it portrays cultural, identity, and geographical differences. The authors demonstrate that literature becomes a space where images of the foreigner, the exile, the colonized, or even the marginalized are constructed. Thus, the novel does not merely tell a story ; it also reflects the relationships between cultures and imaginaries. The book emphasizes several main themes, notably the writing of the Other, the writing of the Elsewhere, the question of identity, stereotypes, the imaginary, and novelistic modernity.