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104155
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2011.
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In Algeria as in many other cases, experiences of exile and diaspora played a major role in the creation of nationalist politics in the 20th century; exile has also been a recurring literary figure in expressions of Algerian cultural politics since independence. This article examines a range of literary sources to consider the politics of language and culture in Algeria since the 1940s. It shows how identification with Arabism has enabled Algerians to articulate claims to community, solidarity, and sovereignty, first in a conception of national "salvation" against the colonial state and then as both a state-sponsored project of political legitimacy and an indication of the limits of that project. A sense of these limits can be gained by a brief consideration of the complexity of the country's sociolinguistic landscape and the often unorthodox creativity of its literary self-expression since independence.
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124495
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2013.
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Studies of violence relating to the Middle East have sometimes done more harm than they have explained. Like the intended effects of the U.S. military's doctrine of "rapid dominance," compared by its proponents to "tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes ... famine and disease," violence in the Middle East would appear to be "incomprehensible," though less to "the people at large" who are affected by it than to its prolific theoreticians.1 Over the past two decades, much of the literature on the region as a "cauldron of war"- generating five times its share (by population size) of total global conflict since the mid-20th century2-has tended to update and propagate well-known mythologies of primitivism, authoritarian personalities, and ancient hatreds.3 The significance of such mythopoeia has been its capacity to realize, at least in part, the conditions of its own truthfulness by shaping perception and policy, framing and enabling the infliction of a new wave of warfare on the region. Much contemporary writing on post-Cold War
global crisis, the geopolitics of instability, regional conflict, and the future of warfare4 has not only signally failed to understand the dynamics of the Middle East but has actively contributed to the spread of violence in the region.
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060190
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