Abstract
What these essays collectively show is that despite a lack of resources, and the pressures of censorship, state's co-optation and repression, contemporary multilingual cultural productions in Morocco have been vital in creating social and political awareness against colonialism, political and social domination and corruption. This collection of papers examines the multifaceted way multilingual cultural products such as novels, short stories, theatre, films, rap music and fashion design engage with and protest against dominant social and political discourses on memory, religion, gender, national identity and politics. This is what Rancière (Citation2013, 152) calls epistemic ‘naturalness’ attached to the ‘distribution of the sensible’ in contemporary Morocco. The diverse aesthetics analysed in this collection offers a politics of ‘dissensus’ that disrupts systems of domination and offers alternative imagining of Moroccan society, a society that aspires to freedom and dignity.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | UK |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Volume | 21 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Dec 2016 |