Intro -- Occidentalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidentalist Discourse -- 2 From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion and Cultural Assimilation -- 3 The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-Colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident -- 4 'La France, c'est moi': Love and Infatuation with the Occident -- 5 The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man's Victim?
6 The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to Ambivalence -- 7 The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and Ambivalence -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period
