Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel
Hamil, Mustapha
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Title
Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel
Author(s)
Hamil, Mustapha
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Palencia-Roth, Michael
Accad, Evelyne
Department of Study
Comparative Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, African
Language
eng
Abstract
"In Chapter One, I examine how contemporary Arab discourse on the I/Other opposition has not liberated its premises from the fixed Hegelian master/slave dialectic, and thus continues to posit the West/modernity as a stable and homogeneous entity against which everything else, including intellectual and literary production, is read as marginal. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate how the Moroccan novel in French and Arabic fails to interrogate both French and nationalist historiographies. Chapter Three deals with the emergence of individualized ""petits recits"" of protest and disenchantment subsequent to the failure project of independence. In Chapter Four, I suggest that the journey North, contrary to Edward Said argues, re-inscribes the West as a point of reference and ultimately as a fixed reality against which everything else, including manifest and latent hybrid consciousness, need to be defined. Chapter Five offers a detailed reading of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mohamed Berrada, who illustrate the two trends of self-orientalization and self-occidentalization. Both forms of representation, self-occidentalization and self-orientalization, effect, in Anne McClintock's words, a re-staging of Eurocentric times."
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