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This work takes the notion of home as its focus of interest given its crucial centrality in human life generally and in the life of displaced people particularly. Indeed, the critical importance of the concept of home stems from its association with a number of significations. At times, home seems to assume a fixed meaning and finished sense of belonging where difference is not permitted; whereas, at the age of globalization, home is dislocated and destabilized. In short, home is a site of constructedness. However, the deconstruction of the idea of home in the Moroccan diasporic fiction opens...

Not all the travellers who had trodden the orient during the heightened era of imperialism comply with the defining precepts of what Edward Said has labelled Orientalism. The worldviews of some travel writers were not unilaterally levelled by the juggernaut of imperialism. From within the hustle and bustle of colonial rhetoric, some voices retain a poignant independence that interrogates the unicity, generalization, stability, and homogeneity with which Said has sealed up his seminal thesis Orientalism. Following a multidisciplinary cultural studies approach, the present thesis interprets...