Hédi Bouraoui and Multiculturalism. A Historical Approach to Cultural Diversity in the Maghreb
Hédi Bouraoui and Multiculturalism. A Historical Approach to Cultural Diversity in the Maghreb

Summary/Abstract: This study is based on two key-concepts in Bouraoui’s works: a) the definition of transculture, regarded as the seminal stage in the evolution of multiculturalism, and b) the necessity of celebrating the origins of cultural diversity. The first part of this article is dedicated to transculture as a critical perspective of multiculturalism and also an invitation to a better handling of cultural diversity. This approach leads to the deconstruction of a fundamentally Canadian myth that consists in the idea that multiculturalism was born in Canada. In this sense, the purpose is to explore how the societies of the Maghreb managed diversity historically, and how the colonial centralist nation-state model aimed to homogenize in order to better control. Our approach extends beyond the creative corpus (Bouraoui’s work) in a broad exploration of socio-historical realities behind cultural diversity in the region.

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