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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Contemporary Moroccan cultural production: between dissent and co-optation |
Editor: | Laachir, Karima |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Cultural Studies (ISSN 1369-6815) |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 371 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Abingdon |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Geographic terms: | East Africa Central Africa Morocco |
Subjects: | arts literature Kanuri language |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjac20/25/3 |
Abstract: | This special issue of 'Journal of African Cultural Studies' shows the complexity of the Moroccan cultural scene. Articles included concern a range of genres and include work on both francophone and Arabophone novels and theatre, as well as popular culture in the form of hip hop music. The issue also includes articles on Kanuri proverbs and East African short stories. Articles included: Cultural production and cultural patronage in Morocco: the State, the Islamists and the field of culture (Said Graiouid & Taieb Belghazi); 'Being-in-the-world': the Afropolitan Moroccan author's worldview in the new millennium (Valérie K. Orlando); Reflections on co-optation and defeat in the contemporary Moroccan novel in Arabic: Mohammed Achaari's 'The Arch and the Butterfly' (2011) (Karima Laachir); Acting up: performance and the politics of womanhood in contemporary Morocco (Cleo Jay); Unravelling distinct voices in Moroccan rap: evading control, weaving solidarities, and building new spaces for self-expression (Cristina Moreno Almeida); Kanuri proverbs: metaphoric conceptualization of a cultural discourse (Mohammed Laminu Mele); Familial cartographies in contemporary East African short stories (Grace A. Musila). [ASC Leiden abstract] |