Invention of the Maghreb - Between Africa and the Middle East

Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Geographic Imagination and Cartographic Power; 2. The Trace and Its Narratives; 3. Language, Race, and Territory; 4. Naming and Historical Narratives; 5. Strategies for the Present; 6. Cracks; Epilogue.

About the author

Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa (2016), and author of Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City (2020), Violent Modernity: France in Algeria (2010) and Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine (2011). He was a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Study at Harvard, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at the Aga Khan Center.

Summary

Looking at how French colonial rule invented the concept of the Maghreb, carving it out as something distinct from sub-Saharan African and the Middle East, Abdelmajid Hannoum demonstrates how this started long before the conquest of Algiers and lasted until the time of independence, and beyond, to our present.

Product details

• Authors: Abdelmajid Hannoum, Abdelmajid (University of Kansas) Hannoum, Hannoum Abdelmajid
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108838160
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83816-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, African History