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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783811603321

Titolo

Nation, society and culture in North Africa / / edited by James McDougall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-76105-1

0-203-60935-2

1-135-76106-X

1-280-05208-2

0-203-50351-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world, , 1466-9390 ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

McDougallJames <1974->

Disciplina

961/.03

Soggetti

Nation-state - Africa, North

Africa, North Politics and government 20th century

Africa, North Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'Nation, society and culture in North Africa' of The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1362-9387) 8/1 (Spring 2003)--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History, culture, politics of the nation / James Mcdougall -- Algeria/Morocco : the passions of the past, representations of the nation that unite and divide / Benjamin Stora -- Ideologies of the nation in Tunisian cinema / Kmar Kchir-Bendana -- Stories on the road from Fez to Marrakesh : oral history on the margins of national identity / Moshe Gershovich -- Echoes of national liberation : Turkey viewed from the Maghrib in the 1920s / Odile Moreau -- Libya's refugees, their places of exile, and the shaping of their national idea / Anna Baldinetti -- Martyrs and patriots : ethnic, national and transnational dimensions of Kabyle politics / Paul Silverstein -- Moroccan women's narratives of liberation : a passive revolution? / Liat Kozma -- Citizens and subjects in the bank : corporate visions of modern art and Moroccan identity / Katarzyna Pieprzak -- The nation's unknowing other : three intellectuals and the culture(s) of being Algerian, or on the impossibility of subaltern studies in Algeria / Fanny Collona.



Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood.