Understanding Third-Worldist Literary Exchange: National Writersâ Unions in Cuba and Algeria

Maru PabÃ³n

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004724815_009

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This chapter offers a new account of Third-Worldist cross-cultural engagements and forms of literary exchange by looking at a distinctive channel of contact between Cuba and Algeria from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s: national writersâ unions. Drawing on Nan Z. Daâs work on âintransitive encountersâ (Da 2018), the chapter scrutinizes the bounded but active ties between Cuban and Algerian writers during the height of the Third World project in order to historicize both the structures that made them possible and the ends towards which each otherâs literary expressions were put. Focusing primarily on the figures of Fayad JamÃs and Jean SÃ©nac, the chapter argues that the Cuban and Algerian writersâ unions (the uneac and uea) facilitated literary engagements that were rooted in the politicized function of literature. In each otherâs texts, Algerian and Cuban writers registered less the cultural content of a foreign tradition than the fact of each otherâs literature as a weapon in the struggle for decolonization. This commonalityâa commonality of functionâwas an essential basis for literary practices of solidarity. As a result, exchanges between Cuban and Algerian writers may not have transcended their occasions in obvious and immediate ways, but they nevertheless shaped the discursive terrain of Third-Worldist internationalism and its attendant literary forms and genres.

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Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America

Series:Â Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004724815

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 May 2025

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