Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria - Brossura

Lorcin, Patricia M. E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860643760 ISBN 13: 9781860643767

Casa editrice: Tauris Academic Studies, 1999

Riassunto

Using colonial Algeria as the starting point of her analysis, Patricia Lorcin explores the manner in which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions are developed and used in society. She focuses on the colonial images of "good" Kabyle and "bad" Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle Myth) and examines the circumstances out of which they arose, as well as the intellectual and ideological influences which shaped them. Her study demonstrates how these images were used to negate the underlying beliefs and values of the dominated society and to impose French cultural, social and political values. By tracing the evolution of ethnic categories over time, Lorcin reveals their inherently unstable nature and the continual process of redefinition in accordance with circumstance and political or social expediency.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Patricia Lorcin has a doctorate from Columbia University and presently lives in Abidjan.

Product Description:

Book by Lorcin Patricia M E

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860643760
• ISBN 13: 9781860643767
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288