Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco

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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 excluded from the historical record because of a lack of textual source material. Introducing social and cultural history, gender studies and literary criticism to the more traditional economic, political and military studies, the book promotes a more complex and nuanced understanding of Moroccan colonial history. Employing new theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume encourages a re-assessment of existing work and promotes a more interdisciplinary approach to the colonial history of Morocco. "Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco" is a highly topical and useful addition to literature on the subject and will be of interest to students and scholars of History, Imperialism and more generally, Middle Eastern Studies. 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 history 6 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 aesthetics 13 ‘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