Specters of Orientalism in France, Algeria, and Postcolonial Studies
Author(s)
O’Riley, Michael
Abstract
As an oppositional practice seeking to unveil the repressed histories of colonialism and to return them to the realm of postcolonial consciousness, postcolonial studies performs a belated exercise of recovery that presents knowledge of Europe’s guilty past. In bringing repressed colonial histories to light, much of this work rightly suggests a collaboration among the ghosts of colonial and orientalist domination in contemporary cultural division, particularly in Algeria and France.
