Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib History, Culture a
The contributors rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of the Maghrib. Their goal is to explore the ambiguities, failures, and silences manufactured by colonial and nationalist scholarships and present alternative strateg
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Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib / History, Culture, and Politics Edited by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
BEYOND COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MAGHRIB Copyright © Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, 2000, 2009. All rights reserved. First published in hardcover in 2000 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-0-230-61363-8 ISBN 978-0-230-62301-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230623019 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre, Inc. First PALGRAVE MACMILLAN paperback edition: July 2009 10
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for my parents: Abdullatif Ahmida and Mabruka Ali
Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Note on Transliteration
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Introduction Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
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PART I HISTORIOGRAPHY Chapter 1
Theorizing the Histories of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Maghrib Edmund Burke III
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PART II ORALITY, AGENCY, AND MEMORY Chapter 2
The Arab Folklorist in a Postcolonial Period Abderrahman Ayoub
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The Moroccan Colonial Soldiers: Between Selective Memory and Collective Memory Driss Maghraoui
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PART III IDENTITY FORMATION, GENDER, AND CULTURE Chapter 4
Identity and Alienation in Postcolonial Libyan Literature: The Trilogy of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
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Cartographies of Identity: Writing Maghribi Women as Postcolonial Subjects Mona Fayad Shadi Abd al-Salam’s al-Mumiya: Ambivalence and the Egyptian Nation-State Elliott Colla
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PART IV NATIONALISM, ISLAMISM, AND HEGEMONY Chapter 7
Islamism and the Recolonization of Algeria Marnia Lazreg
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Economic Reform and Tunisia’s Hegemonic Party: The End of the Administrative Elite Stephen J. King
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PART V IN SEARCH OF PAN-MAGHRIBISM Chapter 9
Bibliography Index
Dreams and Disappointments: Postcolonial Constructions of “The Maghrib” David Seddon
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Acknowledgments
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wish to thank my contributors for enduring multiple requests for revisions of their chapters despite, in some cases, unpredictable events such as travel and illness, and pleasant events such as marriage. I was fortunate to work with scholars from diverse disciplines who reside on three separate continents. Also, I wish to thank the editors of The Arab Studies Quarterly for their permission to reprint revisions of the articles by Burke,
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