Constance Quinlan Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar Postcolonialism can be understood as “a multifaceted and open process of interrogation and critique […] a process, a way of thinking through critical strategies [between self and other]” (Hiddleston, 2009, p.4). Assia Djebar’s Fantasia is emblematic of this task. Her “literature forms a site of experimentation,…
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‘Mediterraneanism’ as Colonialism
The extent to which Mediterranean ideas influenced French and Spanish imperial experiments in North Africa can be seen, not in the ways that they converge, but indeed in the manner to which they diverge and adapt according to each coloniser’s agenda.
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