Authenticity and its Discontents: Abdallah Laroui on the Moroccan and Arab Subject.
This article examines the topic of postcolonial subject formation in the work of Moroccan historian and theorist Abdallah Laroui (1933–) by analyzing his evaluation of the notion of authenticity. I trace understandings of self-identity for Moroccans and other Arab populations that Laroui articulates...
| Publicado en: | Modern Intellectual History Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 1 - 25 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2024
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