Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel

"In Chapter One, I examine how contemporary Arab discourse on the I/Other opposition has not liberated its premises from the fixed Hegelian master/slave dialectic, and thus continues to posit the West/modernity as a stable and homogeneous entity against which everything else, including intellectual and literary production, is read as marginal. In Chapter Two, I demonstrate how the Moroccan novel in French and Arabic fails to interrogate both French and nationalist historiographies. Chapter Three deals with the emergence of individualized ""petits recits"" of protest and disenchantment subsequent to the failure project of independence. In Chapter Four, I suggest that the journey North, contrary to Edward Said argues, re-inscribes the West as a point of reference and ultimately as a fixed reality against which everything else, including manifest and latent hybrid consciousness, need to be defined. Chapter Five offers a detailed reading of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mohamed Berrada, who illustrate the two trends of self-orientalization and self-occidentalization. Both forms of representation, self-occidentalization and self-orientalization, effect, in Anne McClintock's words, a re-staging of Eurocentric times."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Hamil, Mustapha

Contributors dc:contributor

• Palencia-Roth, Michael
• Accad, Evelyne

• Literature, African

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9971088

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87315