TY - BOOK ID - 4877496 TI - Postcolonial counterpoint : orientalism, France, and the Maghreb PY - 2016 VL - *93 SN - 9781442648913 PB - Toronto University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - French literature KW - Orientalism in literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Orientalism KW - Muslims KW - Islam KW - Littérature française KW - Orientalisme dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - Orientalisme KW - Musulmans KW - History and criticism. KW - North African authors KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Auteurs maghrébins KW - Gide, André, KW - France KW - Africa, North KW - Afrique du Nord KW - Relations KW - Littérature française KW - Orientalisme dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - Auteurs maghrébins KW - Gide, André, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4877496 AB - "Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism within postcolonial discourse, Farid Laroussi offers a cultural tour d'horizon which considers André Gide's writing on Algeria, literature by French authors of Maghrebi descent, and the conversation surrounding secularism and the headscarf in France. A provocative investigation of the place of Muslims and Islam in Francophone culture, Postcolonial Counterpoint asks how we must proceed if postcolonial studies is to make a difference in reconciling history, identity, citizenship, and Islam in the West."-- ER -