Moroccan Other-Archives : : History and Citizenship after State Violence / / Brahim El Guabli.

Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence bet...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 6 b/w illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Note on Transliteration --
Abbreviations --
Introduction --
1 (Re)Invented Tradition and the Performance of Amazigh Other- Archives in Public Life --
2 Emplaced Memories of Jewish- Muslim Morocco --
3 Jewish- Muslim Intimacy and the History of a Lost Citizenship --
4 Making Tazmamart a Transnational Other- Archive --
5 Other- Archives Transform Moroccan Historiography --
Conclusion --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.The book shows how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-archive: a set of textual, sonic, embodied, and visual sites that recover real or reimagined voices of these formerly suppressed and silenced constituencies of Moroccan society. Combining theoretical discussions with close reading of literary works, the book reenvisions both archives and the nation in postcolonial Morocco. By producing other-archives, Moroccan cultural creators transform the losses state violence inflicted on society during the years of lead into a source of civic engagement and historiographical agency, enabling the writing of histories about those Moroccans who have been excluded from official documentation and state-sanctioned histories.The book is multilingual and interdisciplinary, examining primary sources in Amazigh/Berber, Arabic, Darija, and French, and drawing on memory studies, literary theory, archival studies, anthropology, and historiography. In addition to showing how other-archives are created and operate, El Guabli elaborates how language, gender, class, race, and geographical distribution are co-constitutive of a historical and archival unsilencing that is foundational to citizenship in Morocco today.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781531501471
9783111319292
9783111318912
9783111319285
9783111318820
9783110751673
DOI:10.1515/9781531501471?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Brahim El Guabli.