Postcolonial Counterpoint : Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb / Farid Laroussi.

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 univ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Laroussi, Farid (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Toronto. Press
Other title:De Gruyter University Press Pilot.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Series:University of Toronto Romance Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • POSTCOLONIAL COUNTERPOINT
  • 1. States of Postcolonial Reading
  • 2. The Orient in Question
  • 3. Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
  • 4. Unfinished (Literary) Business: Orientalism and the Maghreb
  • 5. André Gide and Imperial Dystopia
  • 6. Fables of Maghreb Nationhood
  • 7. A View from Diversité: Writing and Nation
  • 8. The Challenge of Identities and the French Republic
  • Epilogue: Elusive Convergence?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index