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Vitality And Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition
Book
2014
Published by:
Amsterdam University Press
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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"Anti-colonial literature is not necessarily ‘combat literature’ as Fanon and Déjeux have both suggested in their own writings. While it is often combative, there is also anti-colonial literature that emphasizes the human and the humane rather than the oppositional and contentious; it cannot be fair to label all anti-colonial literature as combative, even if one were to expand the definition of “combat” to include peaceful struggles against oppression or dehumanization. This book suggests that the relationship between the West and the rest of the world has been imagined as a relationship of Self (the West) to Other (the rest of the world), ordered and bordered geographically by the whims of Europeans and creating a Center-Periphery paradigm. These invented boundaries of humanity serve to separate geographical sites, but more, they serve to enclose the Empire and exoticize other cultures. Boundaries are often spatial, but more often, they are related to relationships and colonialization."
Table of Contents

pp. 17-34
pp. 73-94
pp. 95-114

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pp. 115-136
pp. 157-176
pp. 185-192

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Download Chapter 10. Emigration and Quest for Identity in Laila Lalami’s Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits, Akbib’s ‘The Lost Generation,’ and Fandi’s Alien … Arab … and Maybe Illegal in America
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ISBN | 9789400601857 |
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MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 903633860 |
Pages | 196 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-01-01 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC |