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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792017703321

Titolo

Revisiting the colonial past in Morocco / / edited by Driss Maghraoui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-06174-9

1-134-06167-6

0-203-36695-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

History and society in the Islamic world

Altri autori (Persone)

MaghraouiDriss

Disciplina

964.04

Soggetti

Imperialism in literature

Morocco History 1912-1956

Morocco Social conditions 20th century

Morocco Social conditions 19th century

France Colonies Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: locating new layers of Moroccan colonial history; PART I Colonialism, spatial configurations and science; 1 The mellah without walls: Jewish space in a Moroccan city: Tangier, 1860-1912; 2 Colonial experience and territorial practices; 3 France in Morocco: technocosmopolitanism and middling modernism; 4 Knowledge, gender and spatial configuration in colonial Casablanca; 5 Rumor and revolution: medicine, technology, and popular politics in pre-protectorate Morocco, 1877-1912

PART II Colonialism and nationalism: a social history6 Civilian administrators in protectorate Morocco: an unrecognized function; 7 Mohand N'Hamoucha: A Middle Atlas Berber; 8 Slavery and the situation of blacks in Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century; 9 Propaganda and its target: the venom campaign in Tangier during World War II; 10 National resistance, amazighité, and (re)-imagining the nation in Morocco; PART III The literary and artistic dimension of colonialism; 11 American Orientalism: taking Casablanca



12 Post-colonial literature in Morocco: nation, identity and resistance aesthetics13 'Nos goumiers berberes': the ambiguities of colonial representations in French military novels; 14 'Le protectorat dans la peau': Prosper Ricard and the 'native arts' in French colonial Morocco, 1899-1952; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the concept of 'colonial cultures,' this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known specificities of particular moments, practices and institutions in Morocco, with the aim of uncovering a 'new colonial history.' By examining society on a micro-level, this book raises the profiles of the mass of Moroccans who were highly influential in the colonial period yet have been exclude