Occidentalism : literary representations of the Maghrebi experience of the East-West encounter / Zahia Smail Salhi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salhi, Zahia Smail, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algerian literature (French)--20th century--History and criticism.

Algerian literature (French).

North African literature (French)--20th century--History and criticism.

North African literature (French).

Arabic literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

East and West in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidenralist Discourse p. 10

2 From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion and Cultural Assimilation p. 37

3 The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident p. 71

4 'La France, c'est moi': Love and Infatuation with the Occident p. 93

5 The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man's Victim? p. 125

6 The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to Ambivalence p. 154

7 The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and Ambivalence p. 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748645800

0748645802

OCLC:

1108727818