Paul Bowles - The New Generation

Abbreviations	IX
Acknowledgements	X
Introduction: Paul Bowles Now and Then ANABELA DUARTE	XI
I THE FASCINATION OF PAUL BOWLES – FACE TO FACE SECRECIES
Paul Bowles as I Knew Him CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO	31
“I Would Invite You to Supper but I Have Only One Egg:” Teaching with Paul Bowles REGINA WEINREICH	45
The Fascination of Paul Bowles ALLEN HIBBARD	53
II ECOLOGIES OF FEAR AND VIOLENCE: RESISTANCE OR DESISTANCE?
The Perceptual is Political: Modes of Consciousness in The Spider’s House GREG BEVAN	71
Laughing with Thieves: Images of Paul Bowles in Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mohamed Choukri CLARE BRANDABUR	85
The Spider’s House: Paul Bowles and the Question of Moroccan Independence YOUNES RIYANI EL ASSAAD	101
Tangier, Capital of Treason ANDREW HUSSEY	117
False Concepts: The Absence of Security and Intimacy in the Work of Paul Bowles ANDREW MARTINO	135
III MUSIC, NOISE AND POLITICS
The Music and Politics of Pastorela (1941) JENNIFER L. CAMPBELL	151
Paul Bowles and Latin American Music LUIS HÉRNANDEZ MERGAL	169
“The Question of Music and Prose, It’s a Tricky One to Answer,” Paul Bowles: Composer – Writer VERENA MOGL	181
The Musical Styles of Early Songs of Paul Bowles CAROLE BLANKENSHIP	203
On Degenerescence and Realms of Suppression: Paul Bowles vis-à-vis Einojuhani Rautavaa ZBIGNIEW BIALAS	225
Noise and Violence in Up Above the World – Music as Torture in Modern Fiction ANABELA DUARTE	235
IV NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES: BOWLES, BURROUGHS AND BEYOND
Aesthetic Tourists: The Sheltering Sky’s Critique of Modernism CHRISTOPHER LESLIE	253
American Existentialism and Surrealism in Paul Bowles’s “The Scorpion” and “By the Water,” Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs’s And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks BENJAMIN J. HEAL	265
“What You Do Is Nearer to What You Are than What You Think Is”: The Importance of Place and Space in Paul Bowles’s Short Fiction ISABEL OLIVEIRA MARTINS	275
Experiences of Death and Dissolution in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and Jack Kerouac’s Desolation Angels and The Dharma Bums NUNO MARQUES	285
V YOU ARE NOT I – FILM AND TEXT
Good Film Hunting: Sara Driver, Paul Bowles, and Tangier FRANCIS POOLE	287
A Resistent Text: “You Are Not I” YOSHIAKI KOSHIKAWA	301
VI ON INTERCULTURAL MEDIATIONS
Towards an Absent Origin: The Edge of Anger in Paul Bowles’s “A Distant Episode” BOUCHRA BENLEMLIH	315
The Impossible Relationship with the “Other” in “The Time of Friendship” FERNANDO GOMES	325
VII MOMENTUM OF SPEED: FILM, BOHEMIA AND THE UNCANNY
The Film Narrator Paul Bowles KOSTOULA KALOUDI	339
Gothic Short Circuits in Paul Bowles’s Fiction MARIA ANTÓNIA LIMA	347
Literary Friendship: The Bowleses and Tennessee Williams KRISZTINA DANKÓ	357
Contributors	369
Index	377

Contents

I THE FASCINATION OF PAUL BOWLES – FACE TO FACE SECRECIES

II ECOLOGIES OF FEAR AND VIOLENCE: RESISTANCE OR DESISTANCE?

III MUSIC, NOISE AND POLITICS

IV NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES: BOWLES, BURROUGHS AND BEYOND

V YOU ARE NOT I – FILM AND TEXT

VI ON INTERCULTURAL MEDIATIONS

VII MOMENTUM OF SPEED: FILM, BOHEMIA AND THE UNCANNY