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Postcolonial counterpoint : orientalism, France, and the Maghreb / Farid Laroussi.
LIBRA PQ307.O75 L37 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laroussi, Farid, author.
- Series:
- University of Toronto romance series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French literature--North African authors--History and criticism.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Gide, André, 1869-1951.
- Gide, André.
- Orientalism--France.
- Orientalism.
- Relations.
- French literature--North African authors.
- France--Relations--Africa, North.
- France.
- Africa, North--Relations--France.
- Africa, North.
- Muslims--France.
- Muslims.
- Islam--France.
- Islam.
- International relations.
- North Africa.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism within postcolonial discourse, Farid Laroussi offers a cultural tour d'horizon which considers André Gide's writing on Algeria, literature by French authors of Maghrebi descent, and the conversation surrounding secularism and the headscarf in France. A provocative investigation of the place of Muslims and Islam in Francophone culture, Postcolonial Counterpoint asks how we must proceed if postcolonial studies is to make a difference in reconciling history, identity, citizenship, and Islam in the West."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 States of Postcolonial Reading 3
- 2 The Orient in Question 20
- 3 Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies 54
- 4 Unfinished (Literary) Business: Orientalism and the Maghreb 71
- 5 André Gide and Imperial Dystopia 89
- 6 Fables of Maghreb Nationhood 106
- 7 A View from Diversité: Writing and Nation 125
- 8 The Challenge of Identities and the French Republic 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442648913
- 1442648910
- OCLC:
- 927381786
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