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

Author:: Salhi, Zahia Smail
Published:: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Physical Description:: ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm.

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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN:

9780748645800 hardcover
0748645802 hardcover

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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