Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa

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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. From Morocco to Libya, from bankers to refugees, from colonialism to globalisation, a range of individual studies examines how North Africans have imagined and made their world in the twentieth century. Book Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Foreword Introduction: History/Culture/Politics of the Nation ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES Algeria/Morocco: The Passions of the Past Representations of the Nation that Unite and Divide Two Legitimations of the Nation A Federative Discourse: The Ritual Invocation of Anticolonialism The Illusory Twins of Maghribi Nationalism A Single Field of Reference for Two Nationalisms Postcolonial Separations: Lines in the Sand The 1990s: Ideological and Societal Convergences Summer 1999—a Handshake and a Massacre Summer 2001: Simultaneity—the Berber Question The Past and Visions of the Future NOTES Ideologies of the Nation in Tunisian Cinema NOTES Stories on the Road from Fez to Marrakesh: Oral History on the Margins of National Identity NOTES Echoes of National Liberation: Turkey Viewed from the Maghrib in the 1920s The War of Independence The Sultanate and Caliphate Conclusions NOTES Libya’s Refugees, their Places of Exile, and the Shaping of their National Idea The Places of Libyans’ Exile Tunisia Egypt Syria The Changing Structure of Libyan Exile: the Refugee Associations and the First Signs of Political Activity Development of the Associations’ Activities Political Action Moves to Libya Conclusion NOTES Martyrs and Patriots: Ethnic, National and Transnational Dimensions of Kabyle Politics Wartime Nationalism Diasporic Dimensions of Post-War Politics Berber Springs The Binary Logic of the Civil War The Pitfalls of Transnational Consciousness Lounès Matoub: A Martyr for Tamazight Massinissa Guermah: A New Martyr? Conclusion NOTES Moroccan Women’s Narratives of Liberation: A Passive Revolution? Hegemonic Moroccan Historiography The Emergence of Feminist Historiography Locating Women in the National Past Tensions within Feminist Narratives Incorporation and Appropriation Conclusion NOTES Citizens and Subjects in the Bank: Corporate Visions of Modern Art and Moroccan Identity Talking about Modern Citizens and Subjects Negotiating Global and Local Subjectivity Banking on the Future NOTES The Nation’s ‘Unknowing Other’: Three Intellectuals and the Culture(s) of Being Algerian, or the Impossibility of Subaltern Studies in Algeria Subaltern Studies in Algeria? From Disinterest in Popular Insurgency to the ‘Culturalist Turn’ Three Prominent Algerian Intellectuals and their ‘Patrimony’: Mostefa Lacheraf, Mouloud Mammeri and Abu ‘l-Qasim Sa’adallah Names and Places—Lacheraf The Forgotten Uplands—Mammeri A Cultural History of Authenticity: Sa‘adallah Segmentarity at Work Where You Least Expect It Return to ‘a Forgotten Algeria’: a Self-Accepting ‘Subject’? Conclusion NOTES Abstracts Algeria/Morocco: The Passions of the Past. Representations of the Nation that Unite and Divide Benjamin Stora Ideologies of the Nation in Tunisian Cinema Stories on the Road from Fez to Marrakesh: Oral History on the Margins of National Identity Echoes of National Liberation: Turkey Viewed from the Maghrib in the 1920s Libya’s Refugees, their Places of Exile, and the Shaping of their National Idea Martyrs and Patriots: Ethnic, National and Transnational Dimensions of Kabyle Politics Moroccan Women’s Narratives of Liberation: A Passive Revolution? Citizens and Subjects in the Bank: Corporate Visions of Modern Art and Moroccan Identity The Nation’s ‘Unknowing Other’: Three Intellectuals and the Culture(s) of Being Algerian, or the Impossibility of Subaltern Studies in Algeria Notes on Contributors Index