Occidentalism : Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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