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ill. The chapters of this book offer a broad overview of the
culturally rich, complex, and rapidly changing world of
Arab-Islamic North Africa. The authors are scholars and professors
who represent a wide range of nationalities, specializations,
methodologies, and points of view. Fields of interest included in
the volume are women and Islam, the Berber question, Islamic
reassertion, U.S. foreign policy, the transnational Maghrebi
migrant in Europe, film, music, and language and literature. This
book provides valuable insights for students, scholars, and others
interested in a part of Africa that has a venerable history and
culture and that is becoming more and more intertwined with Europe
and the United States. Contents: Ralph M. Coury: Introduction -
Lise Garon: Freedom for Moroccans? A Meaningful Case of the
Development of a Stable Polyarchy - Azzedine Layachi: Islamism in
Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and the Struggle for Change - Oliver
Wilcox: Pivotal or Peripheral? The Maghreb in U.S. Foreign Policy -
Michael J. Willis: Islamism in Algeria: The Politics of Inclusion
and Exclusion - Asma Barlas: Sex, Texts, and States: A Critique of
North African Discourses on Islam - David Crawford/Katherine E.
Hoffman: Essentially Amazigh: Urban Berbers and the Global Village
- Alec G. Hargreaves: The 'Beurs': Between and Beyond National
Boundaries - Rafika Merini: A Socio-Literary Perspective of Women
in the Maghreb: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia - Stephanie S. Saad:
Interpreting Ethnic Quiescence: A Brief History of the Berbers of
Morocco - William C. Young: The Cultural Dimensions of the Sudanese
Civil War - Roy Armes:Reinterpreting the Tunisian Past: Les
silences du palais - Susan Ireland: The Second War of Algeria: The
Representation of History in Fictional Works of the 1990s - R.
Kevin Lacey: Western Movie Representations of Arab-African North
Africa: The Sheltering Sky and the Question of Orientalism - John
Maier: Literate Women in Three Moroccan Writers - Francis Poole:
The Wind and the Lion: Myth versus Reality in the Life and Times of
Moulay Ahmed al-Raisuli - Rod Skilbeck: Mixing Pop and Politics:
The Role of Rai in Algerian Political Discourse - Ben Yarmolinsky:
Some Remarks on Jilala Music from Tangier, Morocco.
Writing Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the
literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present.
Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important
role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the
literary imagination; what is the nature of the inter-textual
output produced through Paul Bowles' translations of the oral tales
of a circle of uneducated storytellers (including Mohammed Mrabet
and Larbi Layachi) and the text (For Bread Alone) brought to Bowles
by the literate Mohamed Choukri; how do academics, artists, and
writers who have been based in the city or who have written about
it assess the various socio-economic, political, and cultural
factors that have shaped its cultural production and the
relationship of this production to the celebrated hybrid aspects of
its identity; does the success of the literature of Tangier reflect
a truly new multicultural cosmopolitanism, or does it stem from the
fact that this literature is congenial to Westerners, that it is
understood in terms that they themselves define, and that much of
it (including productions in Arabic prepared with the expectation
of translation) has even been written to measure for them?
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