Mutual othering [electronic resource] : Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / Ahmed Idrissi Alami.
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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.Description: xi, 260 pSubject(s): - Travelers' writings, European -- Morocco -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, Arabic -- Europe -- History and criticism
- European prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Arabic prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- East and West in literature
- Islam in literature
- Ethnology in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Morocco -- Description and travel
- Europe -- Description and travel
- 916.404/3 23
- DT309 .I48 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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