The Questions of Identity, Hybridity and Colonialism In Morocco. Colonialism has affected the people who were colonized economically, socially, politically, culturally. As a result of colonization, colonizing nations implemented their own culture within their colonies, the colonial authority requires that it has an essence that is natural and not allowed to be distorted or disturbed. Thus, the colonizer legitimizes his rules of recognition and his rejection of the native's culture. He claims that his culture would not be productive much as the mule if it is mixed or mingled with an eccentric culture. Within this fusion, the concept of hybridity emerges....Keywords:
Oussama El Addouli, Graduate Researcher, Hybridity, Morocco, Postcolonialism, Hybrid Culture, Resistance, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said Moroccan mores beyond the pale: From the Barbary Wars to cinematic reel wars By massively enhancing production of various cinematic features about Moroccan society, civilization and culture, Anglo-American film makers are engaged in perpetuating and forging an eroticized image about Morocco. The type of stereotypes promoted in Anglo-American cinema is of fatalist character, dangerous space, which serves to fetishize symbols of Moroccan culture to meet the audience's needs and feelings ever since the Barbary Wars' clash. This article is one among the coming antidote writings aiming at rectifying somehow the persistent and pertinacious imperial nostalgia towords MoroccoKeywords:
Imouri Mustapha, Morocco, culture, Anglo-American cinema, Barbary Wars, representation, imperialism
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