identity (continued)

root-identity (indentité-racine), 135

sexual identity, 254, 263, 274, 276, 307

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 176, 185

immigration, 100–101, 105–108, 110, 112, 115, 157, 188, 321

imperialism

American imperialism, 113, 186, 242, 300, 310

British imperialism, 179, 182, 267

French imperialism, 101, 105, 111, 115, 174, 178–179, 191–192

Neoimperialism, 122, 177–178, 332

independence, 6, 80, 82, 84, 87, 94, 173, 202, 206, 210, 213, 252, 255–256, 258, 263, 279, 281, 319, 331–332

India, 3, 10, 53, 65, 104, 106–107, 132, 154, 159–160, 162–163, 165–166, 252, 274, 290

indigenization, 279

Indonesia, 11, 19, 153, 158, 160, 162–163, 166, 274, 279–280, 335

invasion, 3, 9, 12, 106, 203, 205–207, 209, 274, 305, 310, 335

Iraq War, 12, 91, 307

irony

“ironic nostalgia”, 4, 21–23, 27–30

Islamic Salvation Front (Front Islamique du Salut a.k.a. FIS), 81, 88–90, 92, 94, 320

Israel, 141

Jameson, Fredric, 243–244, 246, 248, 251, 260, 263–264, 287, 289, 323

Jewishness, 57–58, 65, 141, 319

Jones Act [1917], 332

Khatibi, Abdelkebir

Maghreb pluriel, 87

Koch, Christopher, 8, 153–167, 327

(de) La Fontaine, Jean, 113–114

La Vitrina del Caribe (The Showcase / Display Case of the Caribbean), 201

labor, 25, 29, 48, 126, 176, 211, 220, 231, 317

Laclau, Ernesto, 139, 145

language

Arabic, 71

Berber, 84

Creole, 50, 188, 332

mother tongue, 64, 71

Lebanon, 87, 141

Lévinas, Emmanuel, 7–8, 140–142, 144, 325–326

light colonialism, 174, 178–180, 186, 189, 191–192, 327

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

Joss and Gold, 5, 47, 49, 53

lingering empire

See empire

Little Red Riding Hood, 48

Liverpool

(slave trade in), 34–37, 42

López Nieves, Luis, 9, 202–203, 206–213

Luso descendants, 101–113, 117

Madama Butterfly (Puccini), 5, 49

Maghreb, 6, 8, 80, 85, 87

Malay Chinese, 53–54

Malaysia, 53–54, 158, 336