Malek Alloula
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Malek Alloula (born 1937) is an Algierian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He is best wkonwn for his poetry and essays on philosophy. He wrote several books, more important is Le Harem Colonial: Images d’un sous-érotisme (Editions Slatkine, Geneve-Paris, 1981). "As the initial title stipulates, it provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Allouia calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"), wrote Gregory Betts about Le Harem Colonial (1995).
Books
- The Colonial Harem, 1981/1986.
Literature
- Books on Malek Alloula
- Book chapters and Articles on Malek Alloula
- Lila Abu-Luchod, "The colonial Harem. MALEK ALLOULA. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986 (review),American Ethnologist, Vol. 15, no. 2, 1988:393-394
- Gregory Betts, "Wanted Women, Woman's Wants: The Colonial Harem and Post-colonial Discourse", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Lilterature Comparee, September/decembre 1995:527-550.
- Mark Durden (ed.), Fifty Key Writers on Photography, N.Y.: Routlledge, 2013.
