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Morocco in Postcolonial Literature: Colonial Representations and Counter Discourse

Morocco in Postcolonial Literature: Colonial Representations and Counter Discourse

Karkafi, Fatma

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ISBN10: 3389114157
ISBN13: 9783389114155
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Feb 3 2025
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 14/20, course: Comparative Literature, language: English, abstract: The present book analyses the representations of Moroccan identity in colonial and postcolonial discourses. The first part of this book is concerned with the misrepresentations of the Moroccan identity in Walter Harris's Morocco That Was (1921); a book that is highly affected by the ideologically driven colonial assumptions. In the colonial period, the West inflicted a set of systems of categorization on the colonized which they displayed as global objective systems of knowledge. The text under study is examined from an ideological and historical lens. The second part of this study provides a dismantlement of the orientalist falsified images and misrepresentations of Moroccans. Relying on Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014), this research sheds light on how this postcolonial intellectual makes use of counter-discursive strategies for the purpose of challenging the falsified assumptions of the colonial power.

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