Maghreb is a region located between many worlds – African, Occidental, Oriental, pan-Arab, Islamic, to name a few. Thus, not surprisingly, it is permeated by a number of depictions and narratives trying to capture and make sense of such diversity and the types of encounters it generates. The thesis is an exploration on the politics of narrating postcolonial Maghreb in the writings of Francophone Maghrebian writers such as Abdelkebir Khatibi, Fatema Mernissi, Kateb Yacine and Jacques Derrida, who explicitly embraced the task of (re)imagining their respective societies and, importantly, their subject-positions as Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals after independence from the colonial yoke and subsequent nation-building processes by postcolonial states in the region. The main line of inquiry throughout the dissertation focuses on the politics of imagination, disenchantment but also hope bridging these texts together and draws attention to the worldliness of texts (a terminology coined by Edward Said) in order to both situate texts in their contexts and discuss the potential of narrative strategies (and of critical imagination) to promote political change. I therefore consider narratives as political acts and draw attention to the turbulent contexts in which postcolonial Francophone Maghrebian literature emerges and constantly reinvents itself as a site of resistance and contestation. In addition, I argue that there are important parallels between the politics of (re)imagination in these texts and the reflections some IR scholars have been putting forward in their turn to narratives as alternative methodologies in IR. What does this attention to the tropes of narrative, voice and reflexivity as theoretical problems entail to the study of international and global affairs? What sorts of anxieties and hopes does the turn to narratives both as modes of communicating knowledge to the world and as modes of knowing, (re)imagining and thus (re)telling the world bring about in the field of IR? In providing an answer to these questions, I promote an encounter between narratives about/from the Maghreb and narratives about/from IR and IR theory in their attempts at making sense of the world of international and global affairs.