Series Editor’s Foreword; Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1.The Maghreb and the Occident: Towards the Construction of an Occidentalist Discourse; 2. From the Faraway Orient to the Reclaimed Occident: French Civilisation, Religious Conversion, and Cultural Assimilation; 3. The Occident and the Barbary Corsairs: Pre-Colonial Maghrebi Encounters with the Occident; 4. “La France, c’est moi”: Love and Infatuation with the Occident; 5. The Occident and the Oriental Woman: Rescuing the Oriental Man’s Victim?; 6. The New Maghrebi Woman and the Occident: From Occidentophilia to Ambivalence; 7. The End of the Chimera: Disillusion, Alienation and Ambivalence; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.