This book explores narratives produced in the Maghreb in order to illustrate shortcomings of imagination in the discipline of international relations (IR). It focuses on the politics of narrating postcolonial Maghreb through a number of writers, including Abdelkebir Khatibi, Fatema Mernissi, Kateb Yacine and Jacques Derrida, who explicitly embraced the task of (re)imagining their respective societies after colonial independence and subsequent nation-building processes. Narratives are thus considered political acts speaking to the turbulent context in which postcolonial Maghrebian Francophone literature emerges as sites of resistance and contestation. Throughout the chapters, the author promotes an encounter between narratives from the Maghreb and IR and makes a case for the kinds of thinking and writing strategies that could be used to better approach international and global studies.

本书探讨了在马格里布产生的叙事，以说明国际关系（IR）学科中想象力的不足之处。本书通过一些作家，包括Abdelkebir Khatibi、Fatema Mernissi、Kateb Yacine和Jacques Derrida，重点讨论了叙述马格里布后殖民时期的政治，这些作家在殖民独立和随后的国家建设过程中明确接受了（重新）想象各自社会的任务。因此，叙事被认为是政治行为，讲述了后殖民时代马格里布法语文学作为抵抗和竞争的场所出现的动荡背景。在整个章节中，作者促进了马格里布叙事与IR之间的相遇，并提出了可以用来更好地接近国际和全球研究的各种思维和写作策略的理由。