Postcolonial Maghreb and the Limits of IR

Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• 1. Introduction: Making the Case for Reimagination.- 2. Narrative IR, Worldly IR.- 3. Postcolonial Literature and the Task of (Re)imagining the Maghreb.- 4. History and Narration as Weapons of Decolonization: Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma.- 5. Language and the (Im)possibility of Translation in Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other and Khatibi’s Love in Two Languages.- 6. East and West Encounters and Double Critique in Fatema Mernissi’s Writings.- 7. IR and the Need for Reimagination – Concluding Remarks.