Tag: A Slave Between Empires
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Beyond (Post)Colonial Histories: M’hamed Oualdi and the Possibility of ‘Other Chronologies.’
The book begins with a body, alive, but registering a deep visceral shock. A blow that is a cultural, political blow, but is experienced at the corporeal level. It is the story, and the body, of the former Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah who, like so many others experienced ‘the physical and mental traumas of…