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Samuel Everett

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Plurality, Hybridity, and the Self: A Review of Benjamin Stora's "Voyages en postcolonies"

Nov 16 2012
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Benjamin Stora, Voyages en postcolonies. Paris : Stock, 2012.  Si je dis “L'Algérie est un pays musulman,” on m'accuse de faire le jeu des intégristes. Si je dis “L'Algérie n'est qu'un pays républicain,” on me rétorquera qu'il ne faut pas oublier qu'elle est un pays musulman. La France fonctionnne par images fixes, alors que l'Algérie échappe aux définintions simples. Une sorte de mixité, de métissage, de pluralité, de circulation sur fond d'héritages ...

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Samuel Everett is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies where he has taught General Diplomatic Studies and Practice. He is scheduled to complete his thesis by mid 2013. His research interests lie in the complexity of feeling in Minority identification to a hostland with a focus on the itineracy of Diaspora particularly in Jewish North African history and society. The emphasis of his PhD dissertation is on zones of North African Judeo-Arab commonality in terms of migration, language, sociality, trade and ritual.

His poems will be read with admiration and awe, but perhaps it’s time to forget about Adunis the cultural critic and radical intellectual. The Arab Spring has consigned Adunis, the self-proclaimed revolutionary, to irrelevance. And that is the beauty of revolutions.
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