Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Foreword vi
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidentalist Discourse 10
7. 2 From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion and Cultural Assimilation 37
8. 3 The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident 71
9. 4 ‘La France, c’est moi’: Love and Infatuation with the Occident 93
10. 5 The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man’s Victim? 125
11. 6 The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to Ambivalence 154
12. 7 The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and Ambivalence 188
13. Afterword 216
14. Notes 220
15. Bibliography 252
16. Index 265