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Invention of the Maghreb - Between Africa and the Middle East

English · Hardback

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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.

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