Occidentalism : : Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter / / Zahia Smail Salhi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Smail Salhi, Zahia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Explores the encounters between East and West in Maghrebi literature in the pre-1945 periodFocuses on the work of early Algerian intelligentsia known as the Young Algerians and their insistent letters to the OccidentDepicts the Maghrebi encounter with the Occident as a plea to extend Western civilisation to all factions of the colonised societyEngages with the work of early French feminists and its impact on the birth of Algerian feminismIncludes readings of key texts by Chukri Khodja, Saad ben Ali, Djamila Débêche, Fadhma Amrouche, Mouloud Feraoun, Mohamed Dib, Ferhat Abbas and Albert Memmi, amongst many othersMaghrebi 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Some Comments, Clarifications, Explanations, Observations, Recommendations, Remarks, Statements and Suggestions) -- Part I New Adventures in Theory -- 2 Cultural Studies and Deconstruction -- 3 Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism -- 4 Cultural Studies and Ethics -- 5 Cultural Studies and German Media Theory -- Part II New Theorists -- 6 Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze -- 7 Cultural Studies and Giorgio Agamben -- 8 Cultural Studies and Alain Badiou -- 9 Cultural Studies and Slavoj Žižek -- Part III: New Transformations -- 10 Cultural Studies and Anti-Capitalism -- 11 Cultural Studies and the Transnational -- 12 Cultural Studies and New Media -- Part IV New Adventures in Cultural Studies -- 13 Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas’ Project on the City -- 14 Cultural Studies and the Posthumanities -- 15 Cultural Studies and the Extreme -- 16 Cultural Studies and the Secret -- Bonus Section: Fr Frontmatter -- 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