Occidentalism : : Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter /

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

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 civilis...

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

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