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Moroccan other-archives : history and citizenship after state violence
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Memories of Absence
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian conflict. Memories of Absence investigates how four successive generations remember the lost Jewish community. Moroccan attitudes toward the Jewish population have changed over the decades, and a new debate has emerged at the center of the Moroccan nation: Where does the Jew fit in the context of an Arab and Islamic monarchy? Can Jews simultaneously be Moroccans and Zionists? Drawing on oral testimony and stories, on rumor and humor, Aomar Boum examines the strong shift in opinion and attitude over the generations and increasingly anti-Semitic beliefs in younger people, whose only exposure to Jews has been through international media and national memory.
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Selkea! Memories of Eating Non-Kosher Food among the Spanish–Moroccan Jewish Diaspora in Israel
Drawing on life-story interviews and ethnography conducted in Israel from 2009 to 2023, this article examines how members of the Spanish-speaking Moroccan–Jewish diaspora in Israel recalled their habits of eating non-kosher food in Morocco. We explore how these memories emerged in response to commonplace discourses that depict Moroccan Jews as a distinctly religious-traditional ethnic group, untouched by European secular influences, and dichotomous to modern secular cultures in Israel. Contrary to this image, members of the community whom we interviewed highlighted a Jewish Moroccan life that was deeply connected to Spanish colonialism and the broader Hispanic and Sephardi worlds. We focus specifically on the concept of selkear, a Haketia (Judeo-Spanish) term meaning to let something go, make an exception, or turn a blind eye. Our analysis of our participants’ memories provides a nuanced understanding of Jewish religiosity in the context of colonialism and of how Mizrahi–Sephardi immigrants in Israel reclaimed their Judaism. Highlighting the practice of eating non-kosher food is thus a strategy used to challenge dominant notions of rigid religious commitment within the Sephardi diaspora and their interpretation in Israel.
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Janus in the Metropole: Moroccan soldiers and sexual violence against women in the Spanish civil war
Approximately 80,000 Moroccan men fought on the side of Franco in the Spanish Civil War. When the colonial wars ended, those men were recruited from very poor villages (some of them at the age of 16). Although the core collective memory that remains about those Moroccan troops ('the Regulars') concerns absolute cruelty, particularly towards women, they also form part of the history of the Spanish colonisation. During the Civil War, Franco's General Queipo de Llano promised that the 'castrated' Republican soldiers' women would know about the 'virility' of those Moroccan troops. Departing from fragmented historical data, this contribution presents a brief critical victimological analysis of grey zones and 'Janus' characters to better understand the complexities of victim and victimiser that overlap in the contexts of victimhood, accountability, colonisation, war and violence against women.
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\The Text Must Remain the Same\: History, Collective Memory, and Sung Poetry in Morocco
Ciucci examines the three excerpts of \"Kharbusha\"--the name of the female character who personifies a legendary Moroccan heroine--is the title of one of the most celebrated poems of the aita. In describing and transcribing three excerpts of\"Kharbusha,\" he illustrates how melody and rhythm support the verses. Also, he discusses the interaction between the kamanja (Western viola) and the voice of the shikhat. Among other things, Ciucci analyzes how the historical context to which the audience relates becomes an instrument through which the interpreters voice the poem; how intertextuality allows for \"Kharbusha\" to feel the same despite difference; and the role of melody and rhythm in supporting or creating intertextuality while holding participants together as they transcend time.
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Disseminating Music amongst Moroccans in Britain: Exploring the Value of Archival Sound Recordings for a Cultural Heritage Community in the Diaspora
This article presents and analyses the process and outcome of a dissemination project using the collections of an ethnomusicology sound archive amongst a cultural heritage community in the diaspora-in this case, the Moroccan holdings of the British Library's World and Traditional Music Section, and Moroccans living in Britain. Beginning with a personal introduction from within an ethnomusicology sound archive, I first discuss the motivations and questions that led to the creation of a proactive archiving project. From here, I describe how I collaboratively selected sound recordings from an archive's holdings and endeavoured to take them out of the archive and into a community. Issues that emerge and are explored include: cultural representation and ownership; communal identity formation; and musical memory and meaning. I argue how, despite certain obstacles, particularly in relation to copyright and intellectual property rights' clearance, even the smallest of archival dissemination projects, such as the one discussed here, can reveal the potential value of legacy materials for a community whose cultural heritage is represented on the recordings. In particular, I show how archival sound recordings from the British Library have enabled Moroccans living in Britain to reclaim (when it has been lost in history) and proclaim (to future generations) their cultural heritage, as well as to evoke memories and reinforce a sense of identity. I conclude by arguing that archives and archiving in the twenty-first century might usefully be reconceptualised in various ways. In particular, by focusing on collaborative partnerships that facilitate meaningful access to existing cultural heritage materials, ethnomusicology sound archives might fulfil their archival responsibilities and cultural heritage communities in the diaspora might continue to cultivate sustainable identities using resources that were not previously available to them.
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'Colonialism as key': African discourse and Spanish transition in the work of Fernando González
ABSTRACT IN SPANISH: La transición española hacia la democracia constituye un momento decisivo en la formación de ciertos discursos africanos novedosos y heterogéneos. En este marco, el escritor y periodista Fernando González (1939-1980) es uno de los intelectuales que plantea nuevas reflexiones sobre el lugar de África, especialmente Marruecos, en el imaginario cultural y la memoria histórica colectiva. Investiga la situación postcolonial contemporánea del continente y las relaciones hispano-magrebíes, sobre todo en sus artículos de prensa. En su ensayo Liturgias para un caudillo (1977) subraya la importancia del pensamiento colonialista para entender la ideología, las estructuras y la ritualidad `africanista' del sistema franquista. En su novela Kábila (1980), describe tanto la Guerra del Rif como la Guerra Civil desde la perspectiva de un soldado marroquí, aplicando una estrategia de doble codificación, para deconstruir las versiones franquistas del pasado reciente que aún se perpetúan durante la transición. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The Spanish transition to democracy after Franco's death constitutes a decisive moment for the formation of new and heterogeneous discourses on Africa. Correspondingly, the journalist and writer Fernando González (1939-80) proposes new reflections about the place of Africa, especially Morocco, in the cultural imaginary and collective memory. In his articles, he investigates the continent's postcolonial situation and the Spanish-Maghrebian relations. In his essay Liturgias para un caudillo (1977), he emphasizes the importance of colonialist ways of thinking for an understanding of the ideology, structures and `Africanist' rituality of the Francoist system. In his novel Kábila (1980), he describes the Rif War as well the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of a Moroccan soldier. He applies a strategy of double codification to deconstruct the Francoist versions of history that were still perpetuated during the transition. Reprinted by permission of the Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft
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CONSTRUCTING A DIASPORIC IDENTITY: TRACING THE ORIGINS OF THE GNAWA SPIRITUAL GROUP IN MOROCCO
This article reconstructs the forgotten past of the Gnawa who, over many generations, productively negotiated their forced presence in Morocco to create acceptance and group solidarity. The diaspora of black West Africans in Morocco, the majority of whom were forcefully transported across the Sahara and sold in different parts of Morocco, shares some important traits with the African trans-Atlantic diaspora, but differs at the same time. There are two crucial differences: the internal African diaspora in Morocco has primarily a musical significance and it lacks the desire to return to the original homeland. This diaspora is constructed positively around the right to belong to the culture of Islam, unlike the construction of the African American diasporic double consciousness. Black consciousness in Morocco exists in analogy to the Berber consciousness or the Arab notion of collective identity; it does not constitute a contradiction with itself. Black Moroccans perceive themselves first and foremost to be Muslim Moroccans and only perceive themselves secondarily as participants in a different tradition.
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Memory and Reconciliation in Morocco
The creation by King Mohammed VI of an Equity & Reconciliation Commission aims to shed light on the violence of the \"years of lead\" & to accompany the political opening of the regime. But the exclusive focus on the events & the victims, without assigning the responsibilities-notably of the state at the highest level-& the culprits, limits the impact of this process, which aims to change monarchy's authoritarian image. Adapted from the source document.
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