Morocco in Postcolonial Literature: Colonial Representations and Counter Discourse

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 14/20, course: Comparative Literature, language: English, abstract: The present book analyses the representations of Moroccan identity in colonial and postcolonial discourses. The first part of this book is concerned with the misrepresentations of the Moroccan identity in Walter Harris's "Morocco That Was" (1921); a book that is highly affected by the ideologically driven colonial assumptions. In the colonial period, the West inflicted a set of systems of categorization on the colonized which they displayed as global objective systems of knowledge. The text under study is examined from an ideological and historical lens. The second part of this study provides a dismantlement of the orientalist falsified images and misrepresentations of Moroccans. Relying on Laila Lalami's "The Moor's Account" (2014), this research sheds light on how this postcolonial intellectual makes use of counter-discursive strategies for the purpose of challenging the falsified assumptions of the colonial power.

• | Author: Fatma Karkafi
• | Publisher: Grin Verlag
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00094 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3389114157
• | ISBN-13: 9783389114155