Occidentalism
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Occidentalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidentalist Discourse -- 2 From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion and Cultural Assimilation -- 3 The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-Colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident -- 4 'La France, c'est moi': Love and Infatuation with the Occident -- 5 The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man's Victim? 6 The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to Ambivalence -- 7 The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and Ambivalence -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.
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Algerian literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century North African literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century Arabic literature--History and criticism.--20th century East and West in literature.