Reading for theory in the Moroccan Marxist-Leninist testimonial literature

Guabli, Brahim El

doi:10.1080/14725843.2020.1773243

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“…In this context, a new generation of Maghrebi and specifically Moroccan writers have started to deal with salient moments of trans-Saharan contacts, including the trauma of slavery and racism. Brahim El Guabli ( 2021 ) has termed this new trend the ‘sub-Saharan African turn in Moroccan literature.’ Works which make up this corpus include Miloud Benbaqui’s ‘أمبريك … عبد السودان’ [Ambrik … Slave of the Sudan] (2018); Tahar Benjelloun’s ‘Le marriage du plaisir’ [ The Pleasure Marriage ] (2014); Mustafa Laghtiri’s ‘ليلة إفريقية’ [African Night] (2010); My Seddick Rabbaj’s ‘Le Lutteur’ [The Wrestler] (2015); and Rachid El Hachimi’s ‘ذاكرة النرجس’ [The Daffodil’s Memory] (2018). In addition to these and other Moroccan literary texts (in different languages, as we explain below), Arabic literature from the Mashreq (the Middle East) and the Gulf is also increasingly dealing with issues related to transnational racial connections, the experiences of everyday racism that both local and foreign black people experience, and the history of slavery.…”

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Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj’sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil’s Memory]

Goikolea-Amiano

Simour

2021

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Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and undermines multicultural Morocco. In fact, the history of Morocco’s blacks of sub-Saharan descent remains fragmented, scattered and undocumented – partly because of the scarcity of archival sources. Recent years, however, have witnessed the revival of an ‘African consciousness’ in Moroccan history and in literature. This is also the case of Maghrebi (North African) and Arabic literature from the Mashreq (the Middle East) and the Gulf. In this paper, we consider how two recent Moroccan novels, Le Lutteur [The Wrestler, in French] by My Seddick Rabbaj (2017) and Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil's Memory, in Arabic] by Rachid al-Hachimi (2018), deal with salient moments of trans-Saharan cultural connections. We argue that the historical and the geographical imaginaries connecting North and sub-Saharan Africa compel a discussion of the ‘decolonial’ as outlined by the Moroccan critic Abdelkebir Khatibi, and enforce a rebound on the concept of ‘significant geographies’. In engaging with the narratives’ concern about the construction of racial and cultural identities in Morocco, we consider how these works resonate with the recovery of the subaltern history of black Morocco, and how gender, rural and ethnic identity inform and imbue the texts with a knot of ambivalent discourses.

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Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj’sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil’s Memory]

Goikolea-Amiano

Simour

2021

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Writing as Resistance: Transnational Women’s Testimonies of the Carceral Seventies

Purkayastha

2024

Geographies of Gendered Punishment

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Morocco Reimagined

Guabli

2023

J. Relig. Minor. Muslim Rule

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This article rereads the works of Carlos de Nesry and Abraham Serfaty, two important Jewish intellectuals from Morocco, to conceptualize their theorization of state and society in post-1956 Morocco. The article argues that Moroccan Jews’ striving for an inclusive citizenship in and belonging to the independent nation took several forms, but the most salient of which were the two embodied in the work of de Nesry and Serfaty. Although there is a robust literature on Moroccan Jews, these theorizations have not received the scholarly examination they deserve nor have they been put in dialogue with each other to tease out their significance for the situation of Jews in the Moroccan context. This article is an attempt to bring attention to the implications of a locally produced Jewish political theory for the larger Moroccan nation. By examining de Nesry’s and Serfaty’s writing against the background of political repression and increasing authoritarianism, I show how Jewish intellectuals navigated their place in a fast-changing post-independence country, furnishing ideas and projects that could have created a different Morocco.

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Reading for theory in the Moroccan Marxist-Leninist testimonial literature

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Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj’sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil’s Memory]

Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj’sLe Lutteur[The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’sDhākirat al-narjis[The Daffodil’s Memory]

Writing as Resistance: Transnational Women’s Testimonies of the Carceral Seventies

Morocco Reimagined

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