Beyond colonialism and nationalism in the Maghrib: history, culture, and politics

The contributors explore the ambiguities, failures and silences manufactured by colonial and nationalist scholarships, and to present alternative strategies and scholarship to the study of history, culture and state-society relationsin the Maghrib during the 19th and 20th centuries. INDICE: Introduction; A.A.Ahmida - Theorizing the History of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Arab Maghrib; E.Burke, III - Society, Colonialism and State Formation in Tunisia and Libya; A.A.Ahmida - Imperialism, Nationalism, andthe Invention of Ancient Egypt; E.Cola - The Nation State and the Problem of Frontiers in the Maghrib; K.Benson - Post-Colonialism and the Study of Arab Folklore; A.Ayoub - Oral Traditions and the Reproduction of Colonial Ideology inAlgeria - Moroccan Soldiers: Between Selective Memory and Collective Memory; D.Maghraoui - Islamism and the Recolonization of Algeria; M.Lazreg - Economic Reform and Tunisia's Hegemonic Party: The End of the Administrative Elite; S.J.King - Political Science Without Clothes: The Politics of Dress or Contestingthe Spatiality of the State in Egypt; M.Fandy - Gendered Nationalism in the Maghrib; M.Fayad - Identity, Cultural Encounter, and Alienation in the Trilogy of the Libyan Writer Ahmad Ibrahiim al-Faqih; A.A.Ahmida - An Agenda for Future Research; A.A.Ahmida -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61363-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés