Occidentalism

Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter

Zahia Smail Salhi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5322-6 (ISBN)

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Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.

Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused scholarly treatment. This is partly due to limited availability of the books, some of which were printed in as few as fifty copies. Zahia Smail Salhi tracked down these rare works and put them in the spotlight for the first time here. Through close textual analysis and in-depth engagement with religious and socio-political contexts, Smail Salhi determines whether these texts belong to a collective formation we may call ‘Occidentalism’. In so doing, this book reintegrates the pre-1945 Maghrebi novels into the history and study of modern Arabic literature.

Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Manchester and Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. She served as Judge of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013) and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (2016). She was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (2013-2016) and Member of Sub-panel 27 (Area Studies), Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014).

IntroductionChapter One: The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidentalist DiscourseChapter Two: From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion, and Cultural AssimilationChapter Three: The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-Colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident Chapter Four: "La France, c’est moi": Love and Infatuation with the OccidentChapter Five: The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man’s Victim?Chapter Six: The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to AmbivalenceChapter Seven: The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and AmbivalenceAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	427 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-5322-8 / 1474453228
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5322-6 / 9781474453226
Zustand	Neuware