Experimental nations: Or, the invention of the maghreb

Abstract

Réda Bensmaïa's Experimental Nationssets out to examine the issue of national identity, national language, and national culture in a context that makes the traditional definition of these categories problematic. The ideas are clearly articulated and developed in the various chapters dealing with writers from the Maghreb. This book represents an extremely interesting argument against reductive polarities in culture and a redefinition ofuniversalism outside of the colonial definition of uniform sameness. © 2003 by Princeton University Press. All Rights Reserved.