Zahia Smail Salhi

Occidentalism

Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter

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Produktbeschreibung

Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 233mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781474453226
• ISBN-10: 1474453228
• Artikelnr.: 60009227

Autorenporträt

Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Manchester and Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. She served as Judge of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013) and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation (2016). She was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (2013-2016) and Member of Sub-panel 27 (Area Studies), Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an
Occidentalist Discourse
Chapter Two: From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French
Civilisation, Religious Conversion, and Cultural Assimilation
Chapter Three: The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-Colonial Maghrebi
Encounters with the Occident
Chapter Four: "La France, c'est moi": Love and Infatuation with the
Occident
Chapter Five: The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental
Man's Victim?
Chapter Six: The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia
to Ambivalence
Chapter Seven: The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and
Ambivalence
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index