Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Cultural Dynamics of Expatriate Tangier; 3 Paul Bowles, Approaching the Maghreb; 6 Brion Gysin's Conflictive Maghreb; 7 Alfred Chester: In Search of Belonging Through Mapping and Sex; 8 A Counter-Discourse of Tangerian Space in the Works of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Anouar Majid; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
In his study of the Tangier expatriate community at the end of the colonial era, Walonen analyses representations of French and Spanish Colonial North Africa by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Alfred Chester. Depictions of place by native Moroccan authors such as Mohammed Choukri, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Anouar Majid counterbalance Western expressions both of nostalgia for the colonial order and of support for native demands for independent governance
