marginalization, 22, 217, 276, 286

Marqués, René, 9, 202–206, 208, 211–213, 330

Marroon(s), 190

Martinique, 8–9, 173–175, 178, 180–183, 186, 328

master/slave dynamic, 3, 49, 72, 189–190

media, 112, 138, 200, 305–307

Mejía, Waldina, 219, 228–232

memory, 21, 49, 58, 70, 88, 101–102, 200, 202, 228, 256, 260–261

Métissage, 48–49, 136

See also hybridity, creolization

Miles, (General) Nelson A., 206–209

Mokkedem, Malika

la Transe des insoumis, 6, 80–82, 89, 320

Mokkedem, Mohamed

Nuit afghane, 6, 79–80, 85, 87–93, 95–96, 319

mother tongue, 64, 71

Mouffe, Chantal, 139, 145

See also Ernesto Laclau

Mozambique, 101, 104–105

multiculturalism, 4, 22, 54, 86, 133–135, 157–158, 167

multitude

As new proletariate, 5–6, 10, 122, 124–125–129, 131–134, 146, 219, 222–223, 231–233, 324, 333–334

See also Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio

nation

nation-building, 3, 82, 84, 277, 290

national culture, 82, 84, 223

nation (continued)

national dignity, 203

national identity, 5, 25, 64, 70–72, 100, 203, 212

nationalism, 22, 53, 73, 81, 83–84, 144, 185, 206, 288

nationhood, 65, 81, 85, 87

white nation fantasy, 157

Neorealism, 222, 228

New World Order, 2, 13, 40, 180–182, 327

Nietzsche, Frederich, 67, 125–126, 242, 262

Nomadism, 6–8, 80–81, 127, 136, 154, 310

nostalgia, 4, 8, 21–23, 26–30, 105, 123

Obama, Barack, 3, 12–13

Ondaatje, Michael, 33, 44

opacity, 7, 134, 136–137, 140, 146, 325

See also Glissant, Edouard and “right to opacity”

oppositional thinking, 72–73

Orwell, George, 22, 181–182

Palestine, 141–142

Pasini, Willy, 164–165

pedophilia, 53, 307

See also children

periphery, 72, 83, 86, 122, 185, 188

Phillips, Caryl, 8, 181–184, 186, 190–191, 327–328

Ponce de León, Juan, 204, 330

Portugal, 6, 100, 102–111, 322

Portuguese (immigration), 6–7, 100–115, 320–322, 339

postcolonial

postcolonial anxiety, 156