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Book SynopsisThe LAMALIF anthology presents a wide variety of articles from LAMALIF, Morocco’s longest-serving Francophone journal. Active between 1966 and 1988, LAMALIF covered the most critical periods of Moroccan history and engaged in crucial debates about democratization, feminism, culture, education, Third World relations, and decolonization. However, LAMALIF was not just a journal; it was a real school, where Morocco’s, North Africa’s, and the developing world’s emerging and established writers, artists, and thinkers found a space to disseminate their ideas and address readerships across different cultures and geographical areas in French. This anthology is the first comprehensive translation into English of a wide selection of LAMALIF’s articles covering literary and art criticism as well as critical theory, feminism, Islam, and emigration. In addition to making available to Anglophone readerships articles about transnational solidarities and connections between North Africa and the rest of the world, LAMALIF anthology historicizes this sociocultural and political project within the painful period of authoritarianism in Morocco and reveals how culture worked as a trenchant weapon in the struggle against repression and silence.
Trade Review'While some could see the thematic limitation as a weakness in the volume, I see it as a strength… the editors focus on their joint expertise, and the synergy between their academic background and the academic training of their translators… the editors of the volume demonstrate a will to build a community of North Africanists with multidisciplinary backgrounds and viewpoints... thus expanding the spehere of intellectual conversation between the Global South and North.' Aomar Boum, The Journal of North African Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Translation Choices
List of Figures
Preface by Zakya Daoud (a.k.a Jacqueline David)
Introduction
Part I: Literature and Literary CriticismMohamed Berrada: Itinerary and Problematics of Modern Arab Culture
Translated by Steve Fleck
Rachid Mimouni: A Literature,
Fait AccompliTranslated by Matthew Reeck
Mohamed Bennis: The Manifesto of Writing
Translated by Matthew Brauer
Jamal Al Achgar: Driss Chraïbi: “I am from a lost generation.
Translated by Andrea Lloyd
Samira Mounir: Laâbi, or the New Messianism
Translated by Andrea Lloyd
Jamal Eddine Naji: Mostafa Nissaboury, “Moving past absence and deference to create.”
Translated by Matthew Brauer
Fatima Mernissi: Abdallah Zrika, the Voice of Love Still Unheard
Translated by Andrea Lloyd
Abdelfattah Kilito: Meddeb and His Doubles
Translated by yasser elhariry
J. M. et Zakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine: “We can’t stare at the sun without exposing ourselves to the tragedy of lucidity.”
Translated by Khalid Lyamlahy
Jacques Alessandra: The Fascination with Formalism
Translated by Khalid Lyamlahy
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine: Rediscovering the South
Translated by Khalid Lyamlahy
Zakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine’s Linguistic Guerrilla Warfare
Translated by Khalid Lyamlahy
Abderrahmane Lakhsassi: The Conception of Tashelhit Poetry
Translated by Matthew Brauer
Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Writer and Exile (A Reading of
Anabase by St. John-Perse)
Translated by Matthew Reeck
Juan Goytisolo: The Current State of
MudéjarismTranslated by Matthew Brauer
Zakya Daoud: Interview: A. Khatibi, To Be a Witness Generation, To Listen to the Times
Translated by Matthew Reeck
Mohamed El Malki: The Arab Theater in Search of a Redefinition of its Socio-Cultural Function
Translated by Steve Fleck
Zakya Daoud: Tayeb Saddiki Assesses Moroccan Culture
Translated by Matthew Brauer
Part II: Art and Art CriticismLamlif editors: Tallal: A Sad Violence
Translated by Katarzyna Pieprzak
Zakya Daoud: Chebaa: “The painting is working itself out in my head”
Translated by Megan Macdonald
Zakya Daoud: Amine Demnati: “Here they want to destroy. Art is beautiful. Destruction, on the other hand, is ugly.”
Translated by Katarzyna Pieprzak
Mohamed Chebaa: Let’s Liberate Painting from the Paratext!
Translated by Elizabeth Marcus
Alain Flamand: Chaibia’s Childhoods, or A Painter’s Grace
Translated by Megan Macdonald
Toni Maraini: Yacoubi, Who Were You?
Translated by Megan Macdonald
Abdallah Bounfour: Intertext and the Imaginary in The Work of Aboulouaqar
Translated by Megan Macdonald
Mohamed Kacimi: Writing on Writing
Translated by Megan Macdonald
Jamal Al Achgar: Comics, a New Art...
Translated by Andrea Lloyd
Alain Flamand: Miloudi’s Shapes
Translated by Elizabeth Marcus
Part III: Critical TheoryOmar Benjelloun/Mohamed Elberini: Document—Class Struggle in Morocco
Translated by Idriss Jebari
Mohamed El Berini: The Language Issue and the Class Struggle
Translated by Jill Jarvis
Moulim Laarousi: We Must Create a Language: Bouzfour and Oubelhaj
Translated by Kristin Hickman
Moulim Laroussi: Ahmed El Yabouri: The Reflection of Hegemony
Translated by Kristin Hickman
Abderrahman Tenkoul: Maghrebi Literature of French Expression and Critical Discourse
Translated by yasser elhariry
Mohamed Jibril: What is the Purpose of Education?
Translated by Ali Alalou
Farida Bennis: Thesis: Is Marxism a Freudian Idealism?
Translated by Idriss Jebari
Zakya Daoud: FIRST COMMISSION: To Liberate Culture Is to Liberate Man
Translated by Jill Jarvis
Amina Achour Ihrai: Laroui, Belal, and Guessous: In the Face of Historical Lag and Tradition
Translated by Samia Errazzouki
Zakya Daoud: Abdelkébir Khatibi: We Must Attempt a Lasting Double Critique
Translated by Matthew Reeck
Mustapha Sihimi: COUNTERPOINT: What Policy? What Culture?
Translated by yasser elhariry
Bensalem Himmic: CULTURE: Intellectuals in the Face of Historical Depression
Translated by yasser elhariry
Adelkébir Khatib: Beyond Trauma: Morocco/Spain (In Search of Lost Paradise)
Translated by Matthew Reeck
