Forgotten Voices : Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya

Name: Forgotten Voices:Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya
ISBN: 9780429238246

doi:10.4324/9780203825129

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ABSTRACT

In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya.

Forgotten Voices

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

From the Ottomans to the Italians: A Political Economy Approach to State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Libya

chapter 2|8 pages

The Rediscovery of the State of Awlad Muhammad: Sources and Significance, 1550–1813

chapter 3|15 pages

From Tribe to Class: The Origins and the Politics of Resistance in Colonial Libya

chapter 4|20 pages

Italian Fascism—Benign? Collective Amnesia Concerning Colonial Libya

chapter 5|12 pages

Identity and Alienation in Postcolonial Libyan Literature: The Trilogy of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih

chapter 6|19 pages

The Jamahiriyya: Historical and Social Origins of a Populist State