Beyond colonialism and nationalism in the Maghrib : history, culture, and politics / edited by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

History.

Historiography.

Africa, North--History--19th century--Historiography.

Africa, North.

Egypt--History--19th century--Historiography.

Egypt.

Nationalism--Africa, North.

Nationalism.

North Africa.

Nationalism--Egypt.

Group identity--Africa, North.

Group identity--Egypt.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2000.

Summary:

The contributors to this volume critically rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of the Maghrib. Their goal is to explore the ambiguities, failures, and silences manufactured by colonial and nationalist scholarships, and to present alternative strategies and scholarship to the study of history, culture, and state-society relations in the Maghrib during the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite the fact that the contributors come from different disciplines and perspectives -- political science, history, or sociology -- they share a critical view of the history of the Maghrib, and they approach Maghribi societies not as a footnote to Europe and capitalism, but within its own dynamics.

Contents:

Part I Historiography

Chapter 1 Theorizing the Histories of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Maghrib / Edmund Burke III 17

Part II Orality, Agency, and Memory

Chapter 2 The Arab Folklorist in a Postcolonial Period / Abderrahman Ayoub 35

Chapter 3 The Moroccan Colonial Soldiers: Between Selective Memory and Collective Memory / Driss Maghraoui 49

Part III Identity Formation, Gender, and Culture

Chapter 4 Identity and Alienation in Postcolonial Libyan Literature: The Trilogy of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih / Ali Abdullatif Ahmida 73

Chapter 5 Cartographies of Identity: Writing Maghribi Women as Postcolonial Subjects / Mona Fayad 85

Chapter 6 Shadi Abd al-Salam's al-Mumiya: Ambivalence and the Egyptian Nation-State / Elliott Colla 109

Part IV Nationalism, Islamism, and Hegemony

Chapter 7 Islamism and the Recolonization of Algeria / Marnia Lazreg 147

Chapter 8 Economic Reform and Tunisia's Hegemonic Party: The End of the Administrative Elite / Stephen J. King 165

Part V In Search of Pan-Maghribism

Chapter 9 Dreams and Disappointments: Postcolonial Constructions of "The Maghrib" / David Seddon 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0312222874

OCLC:

50667111