Ambitious and lucid, this book provides a comprehensive view of modern Algerian literature originating in the colonial period through the lens of "occidentalism". It is a valuable addition to the scholarship on the enduring, complex, and shifting relationship between coloniser and colonised in the production of literary knowledge.'
Marnia Lazreg, City University of New York
Explores the encounters between East and West in Maghrebi literature ...
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