Olivia C Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 473716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia C Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON O C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Éric Zemmour and the Ambiguities of Indigeneity
This article examines the colonial genealogies of anti-immigrant discourse in France through the case of Éric Zemmour, one of France's most influential nativist politicians. It tracks the permutations of nativist discourse in Zemmour's writings, from his little-known 2008 novel Petit frère (Little Brother) to his best-selling essay La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot (France Has Not Had Its Last Word), which propelled his 2022 presidential run.…
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence
How does one tell the story of postcolonial Morocco “in the absence of any organized archive between independence and 2011 when the Archives du Maroc was created” (13)? This is the opening gambit of Brahim El Guabli’s thoroughly researched foray into what he calls “other-archives”: “texts, artifacts, alphabets, embodied experiences, toponymies, and inherited memories where stories of the excluded, the silenced, and the forgotten live in a ghostly…
Binational Theatre in the Postcolonial Contact Zone: Kateb Yacine, Al Assifa and the Politics of Multilingualism in Algeria and France
In 1972, the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine and his popular theatre troupe toured their first dialect play in migrant communities in France. Performed in Darija (Algerian Arabic) and Taqbaylit (Kabyle) and modelled after Maghribi genres of performance and storytelling, ‘Mohamed arfad valiztek’ (Mohamed pack your bags) inaugurated a new kind of theatre in France: binational theatre, by and for North African migrants. I focus on two early examples of…
The White Minority: Natives and Nativism in Contemporary France
In 2009, a nativist association named AGRIF sued antiracist activist Houria Bouteldja for “anti-white racism.” Though unsuccessful in court, the legal proceedings against Bouteldja are illustrative of a decades-long phenomenon that has accelerated in the age of new media: the recuperation of antiracist discourses by nativist activists who claim that white people constitute a minority in France. This article tracks the emergence of French nativist…
Decolonizing History
The borders between North and South quickly erode when we study the history of anti-colonial revolutions. This is perhaps especially true of France, where the Palestinian revolution has been a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights for the past half century. This article investigates the reactivation of anti-colonialism in the postcolonial era, tracing the decades-long “postcolonial anti-colonial” movements born in migrant circles in Fra…
Decolonizing the Figure of the Migrant, or What Does Palestine Teach Us About the Migrant Question
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Translational Activism and the Decolonization of Culture
Best known as a poet and pro-democracy militant, Abdellatif Laâbi is also a prolific translator of Arabic poetry and prose. Beyond the important work of cross-cultural transmission and dialogue, the translator performs. Laâbi is in a profound sense a translator-activist: a writer who uses translation in order to lend his voice to causes that are not his own. This essay proposes to investigate translation as a form of activism and a figure of mili…
Introduction Translating the Maghreb
Transcolonial cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi stage Palestine in France-Algeria
In the past decade there has been an effervescence of scholarly writings on Frenchlanguage literary and theoretical production from France’s former colonies in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, resulting in the emergence of a relatively new subeld, Francophone postcolonial studies.1 The terms that are collapsed in this expression, Francophone studies and postcolonial studies, are not new of course. The rst is an extension of French studies (primar…
For a Transcolonial Reading of the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In 1968, Abdelkebir Khatibi called upon Maghrebi novelists to engage with the rest of the formerly colonized world in order to advance the goals of cultural decolonization. Maghrebi writers would soon heed to this call, turning in particular to the question of Palestine in order to reinvestigate the colonial past and establish anticolonial solidarity against both “classic” and new forms of colonial rule. Taking my lead from Françoise Lionnet and …
Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization
Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Reframing the field of Maghrebi literature to account for transversal political and aesthetic exchanges—exchanges whose importance is evidenced today in the still unfolding social and political uphe…
Performing Palestine in Contemporary France: Mohamed Rouabhi's Transcolonial Banlieue
Franco-Maghrebi reactions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have received much attention in the French media in recent years, particularly since the Second Intifada began more than a decade ago. Less well known is the longer genealogy of Franco-Maghrebi involvement with Palestine, starting with the comités Palestine formed by Maghrebi immigrants and the Gauche prolétarienne in the aftermath of May '68. This article begins to excavate the geneal…
Rethinking “Jews” and “Arabs” through Palestine: Transcolonial perspectives on Maghrebi literature
In this essay I investigate an unexplored transcolonial relation: that tying North African writers to Palestine. Examining three sets of texts from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, I argue that, in different ways, Albert Memmi, Edmond El Maleh, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Jacques Hassoun reconsidered the legacies of French colonial divide-and-rule tactics in the Maghreb—in particular those opposing Jews and Arabs—through the lens of Palestine. Whereas in …
Staging Palestine in France-Algeria
The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I analyze a transcolonial identification that continues to capture Maghrebi and Mashreqi imaginaries today: the figure of Palestine. Focusing on a 1971 play by the Algerian wr…
Decolonizing the Figure of the Migrant, or What Does Palestine Teach Us About the Migrant Question
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The White Minority: Natives and Nativism in Contemporary France
In 2009, a nativist association named AGRIF sued antiracist activist Houria Bouteldja for “anti-white racism.” Though unsuccessful in court, the legal proceedings against Bouteldja are illustrative of a decades-long phenomenon that has accelerated in the age of new media: the recuperation of antiracist discourses by nativist activists who claim that white people constitute a minority in France. This article tracks the emergence of French nativist…
For a Transcolonial Reading of the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In 1968, Abdelkebir Khatibi called upon Maghrebi novelists to engage with the rest of the formerly colonized world in order to advance the goals of cultural decolonization. Maghrebi writers would soon heed to this call, turning in particular to the question of Palestine in order to reinvestigate the colonial past and establish anticolonial solidarity against both “classic” and new forms of colonial rule. Taking my lead from Françoise Lionnet and …
Staging Palestine in France-Algeria
The ongoing uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East require that we reassess the national and regional paradigms that still prevail in Maghreb and Mashreq studies. Taking the double anniversaries of Algerian independence and of the Arab uprisings as my starting point, I analyze a transcolonial identification that continues to capture Maghrebi and Mashreqi imaginaries today: the figure of Palestine. Focusing on a 1971 play by the Algerian wr…
Rethinking “Jews” and “Arabs” through Palestine: Transcolonial perspectives on Maghrebi literature
In this essay I investigate an unexplored transcolonial relation: that tying North African writers to Palestine. Examining three sets of texts from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, I argue that, in different ways, Albert Memmi, Edmond El Maleh, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Jacques Hassoun reconsidered the legacies of French colonial divide-and-rule tactics in the Maghreb—in particular those opposing Jews and Arabs—through the lens of Palestine. Whereas in …
Performing Palestine in Contemporary France: Mohamed Rouabhi's Transcolonial Banlieue
Franco-Maghrebi reactions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have received much attention in the French media in recent years, particularly since the Second Intifada began more than a decade ago. Less well known is the longer genealogy of Franco-Maghrebi involvement with Palestine, starting with the comités Palestine formed by Maghrebi immigrants and the Gauche prolétarienne in the aftermath of May '68. This article begins to excavate the geneal…
Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization
Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization offers the first thorough analysis of the ways in which Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian writers have engaged with the Palestinian question and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the past fifty years. Reframing the field of Maghrebi literature to account for transversal political and aesthetic exchanges—exchanges whose importance is evidenced today in the still unfolding social and political uphe…
Translational Activism and the Decolonization of Culture
Best known as a poet and pro-democracy militant, Abdellatif Laâbi is also a prolific translator of Arabic poetry and prose. Beyond the important work of cross-cultural transmission and dialogue, the translator performs. Laâbi is in a profound sense a translator-activist: a writer who uses translation in order to lend his voice to causes that are not his own. This essay proposes to investigate translation as a form of activism and a figure of mili…
Introduction Translating the Maghreb
Transcolonial cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi stage Palestine in France-Algeria
In the past decade there has been an effervescence of scholarly writings on Frenchlanguage literary and theoretical production from France’s former colonies in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, resulting in the emergence of a relatively new subeld, Francophone postcolonial studies.1 The terms that are collapsed in this expression, Francophone studies and postcolonial studies, are not new of course. The rst is an extension of French studies (primar…
For a Transcolonial Reading of the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In 1968, Abdelkebir Khatibi called upon Maghrebi novelists to engage with the rest of the formerly colonized world in order to advance the goals of cultural decolonization. Maghrebi writers would soon heed to this call, turning in particular to the question of Palestine in order to reinvestigate the colonial past and establish anticolonial solidarity against both “classic” and new forms of colonial rule. Taking my lead from Françoise Lionnet and …
Decolonizing the Figure of the Migrant, or What Does Palestine Teach Us About the Migrant Question
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Decolonizing History
The borders between North and South quickly erode when we study the history of anti-colonial revolutions. This is perhaps especially true of France, where the Palestinian revolution has been a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights for the past half century. This article investigates the reactivation of anti-colonialism in the postcolonial era, tracing the decades-long “postcolonial anti-colonial” movements born in migrant circles in Fra…
The White Minority: Natives and Nativism in Contemporary France
In 2009, a nativist association named AGRIF sued antiracist activist Houria Bouteldja for “anti-white racism.” Though unsuccessful in court, the legal proceedings against Bouteldja are illustrative of a decades-long phenomenon that has accelerated in the age of new media: the recuperation of antiracist discourses by nativist activists who claim that white people constitute a minority in France. This article tracks the emergence of French nativist…
Binational Theatre in the Postcolonial Contact Zone: Kateb Yacine, Al Assifa and the Politics of Multilingualism in Algeria and France
In 1972, the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine and his popular theatre troupe toured their first dialect play in migrant communities in France. Performed in Darija (Algerian Arabic) and Taqbaylit (Kabyle) and modelled after Maghribi genres of performance and storytelling, ‘Mohamed arfad valiztek’ (Mohamed pack your bags) inaugurated a new kind of theatre in France: binational theatre, by and for North African migrants. I focus on two early examples of…
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence
How does one tell the story of postcolonial Morocco “in the absence of any organized archive between independence and 2011 when the Archives du Maroc was created” (13)? This is the opening gambit of Brahim El Guabli’s thoroughly researched foray into what he calls “other-archives”: “texts, artifacts, alphabets, embodied experiences, toponymies, and inherited memories where stories of the excluded, the silenced, and the forgotten live in a ghostly…
Éric Zemmour and the Ambiguities of Indigeneity
This article examines the colonial genealogies of anti-immigrant discourse in France through the case of Éric Zemmour, one of France's most influential nativist politicians. It tracks the permutations of nativist discourse in Zemmour's writings, from his little-known 2008 novel Petit frère (Little Brother) to his best-selling essay La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot (France Has Not Had Its Last Word), which propelled his 2022 presidential run.…
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