Mutual othering
Subtitle: Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing
By: Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781438447339
Subjects: Europe; East and West in literature; Description and travel; European prose literature; Travelers' writings, European; History and criticism; Ethnology in literature; Arabic prose literature; Imperialism in literature; Travelers' writings, Arabic; Islam in literature
Description: Juxtaposes Moroccan travellers' writings about Europe with French and British writings about Morocco to explore concepts of modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: concepts of modernity; title: Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb; title: The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity; title: Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing; title: Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing; title: Conclusions and contemporary debates.