Moroccan Dreams Oriental Myth Colonial Legacy Minca Claudio Lauren Wagner by Minca Claudio; Lauren Wagner 9781848850156, 1848850158 instant download after payment.

The book is organized around nine chapters, the first two based on secondary sources and historical material, while the other seven are focused on individual sites that, in our opinion, illustrate the present re-enactment of the colonial ‘Moroccan dream’. Clearly, we could have included more sites and more chapters, but it was not our intention to provide an exhaustive mapping of contemporary tourism in Morocco. Rather, we were interested in identifying a series of sites where the intersection between the colonial intervention and the present tourist trope was particularly intense. Thus, while Agadir or Chefchaouen, or even Casablanca, could have perhaps been included in these selections, they also represent other historical flows and trends in tourism that are not as relevant to our argument. By building this geographic archipelago of postcolonial tourism, we wanted to recall the ways in which Morocco is all too often presented by the industry and experienced by the visitor: as a colourful mosaic made of shining Moroccan fragments, wherein each city has a different ‘attitude’ and appeals to a range of potential traveller-consumers. These fragments, often disconnected spatially but also culturally, make sense only if recomposed within the tourist tableau of le Maroc colonial – the former French, now pan-European and broadly Western, projection of an alternative modernity. The structure of the book thus deliberately reflects these cultural mappings, adopted as a strategy in our ethnographic experiencing of Morocco ‘like a tourist’.