Abstract

The writing of history as always has been subject to biases most of the time from those who call the shots but sometimes from factors so insidious that it is very difficult to isolate them Books of history written by approved authorities as well as by independent ones are replete with such examples I do not have space for in this work I need however to draw a line between deliberately sidestepped factors and those that for one reason or another have been omitted My concern in this paper is to highlight the factors that willingly or not are overlooked by the author of the book under focus for what I think are ideologically motivated reasons Pragmatists Donald Davidson 2001b 2004 Richard Rorty 1979 1982 Willard Van Quine 1969 1990 and language philosophers Gontard 1981 indeed speak of a cultural phenomenon a driving force among intellectuals constituted by popular ideas opinions and thoughts or ethical norms which quite often act as doxatic1 factors that either favor alignment behind them or condemn dissident voices It is therefore a major concern of this paper to show that Lawrence the author has fallen victim of such a phenomenon by truncating chunks of vital historical information of the colonies she has studied and more particularly the Moroccan one