Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Palestine as Metaphor 1
6. Part I. Decolonizing the Maghreb
7. 1. Souffles-Anfas: Palestine and the Decolonization of Culture 17
8. 2. Transcolonial Hospitality: Kateb Yacine’s Experiments in Popular Theater 41
9. 3. The Transcolonial Exotic: Allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Algerian Trilogy 61
10. Part II. Jews, Arabs, and the Principle of Separation
11. 4. Portrait of an Arab Jew: Albert Memmi and the Politics of Indigeneity 81
12. 5. Abrahamic Tongues: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida 101
13. 6. Edmond Amran El Maleh and the Cause of the Other 129
14. Epilogue: Palestine and the Syrian Intifada 143
15. Notes 153
16. Index 187
17. Cultural Memory in the Present 203