Occidentalism. Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter, Paperback - Zahia Smail Salhi

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

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Looking at how French colonial rule invented the concept of the Maghreb, carving it out as something distinct from sub-Saharan African and the Midd...

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As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

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Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invent...

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