Panel "The Moroccan Avant-Garde and the Movement for Cultural Decolonization" (Columbia University, 2 novembre 2016)

Panel Discussion :
Translating Souffles-Anfas : A Conversation and Readings

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Founded in 1966 by avant-garde Moroccan poets and artists and banned in 1972, Souffles-Anfas was one of the most influential literary, cultural, and political reviews to emerge in postcolonial North Africa. This conversation and selected readings with the editors and translators of Souffles-Anfas : A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics marks the fiftieth anniversary of this incendiary Third Worldist review.

Participants :


– Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University, co-editor of Souffles-Anfas : A Critical Antholog from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
– Olivia C. Harrison, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, co-editor of Souffles-Anfas : A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
– Omar Berrada, Director of Dar Al-Ma’mûn
– Thomas Spear, Professor of French, CUNY Graduate Center
– Lucy McNair, Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College / CUNY

Event co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies and MESAAS. This event is featured as part of “le Français dans tous ses états”, a series of events supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.

Merci à Jean-Philippe Dedieu (https://twitter.com/jphdedieu) pour le signalement de ce événement.
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