Katarzyna Pieprzak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1449285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katarzyna Pieprzak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katarzyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Pieprzak |
| SIGNATURE | PIEPRZAK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zones of Perceptual Enclosure
This essay explores the imagination of the Moroccan bidonville as "captive space" in two recent francophone Moroccan novels: Mahi Binebine's Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen [The Stars of Sidi Moumen] (2010) and Naïma Lahbil Tagemouati's La Liste [The List] (2013). Drawing on theoretical work on the "zone of nonbeing" (Fanon), "perceptual enclosure" (Sekyi-Otu), and "conditions of appearance" (Gordon), the essay seeks to understand the aesthetics of im…
Creative Reckonings
Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan
In the past ten years, groups of local artists, architects, writers and activists have become concerned not only with the changing material conditions of Casablanca, but also with the city’s memory. This essay is concerned with two projects that reveal how nostalgic modes of recollection expose and limit geographies of cosmopolitan identity in the city. The first project, a collection of twelve booklets written by prominent novelists and poets wi…
Art in the Streets
Every summer, cultural festivals take place all over Morocco, and streets in towns and cities become animated scenes for the articulation of Moroccan contemporary culture. So animated, heterogeneous and pluralistic has this festival scene become that the semiofficial newspaper for the Islamist PJD party has called these street festivals “vectors of decadence” and performing-artist union officials have declared that they feel threatened by the “fo…
Ruins, Rumors and Traces of the City of Brass
Through a reading of Moroccan writer Abdelkrim Jouiti's 1999 short story "Medina Al-Nuhhas" (The City of Brass), this essay seeks to understand how imagined global cities of the past function as imprisoning architectures of memory and how narrative space can be cleared to creatively imagine a new future. The essay argues that in re-telling multiple stories of the City of Brass, Jouiti's text works to expose multiple layers of nostalgia in dominan…
Citizens and subjects in the bank
Ruins, Rumors and Traces of the City of Brass
Through a reading of Moroccan writer Abdelkrim Jouiti's 1999 short story "Medina Al-Nuhhas" (The City of Brass), this essay seeks to understand how imagined global cities of the past function as imprisoning architectures of memory and how narrative space can be cleared to creatively imagine a new future. The essay argues that in re-telling multiple stories of the City of Brass, Jouiti's text works to expose multiple layers of nostalgia in dominan…
Zones of Perceptual Enclosure
This essay explores the imagination of the Moroccan bidonville as "captive space" in two recent francophone Moroccan novels: Mahi Binebine's Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen [The Stars of Sidi Moumen] (2010) and Naïma Lahbil Tagemouati's La Liste [The List] (2013). Drawing on theoretical work on the "zone of nonbeing" (Fanon), "perceptual enclosure" (Sekyi-Otu), and "conditions of appearance" (Gordon), the essay seeks to understand the aesthetics of im…
Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan
In the past ten years, groups of local artists, architects, writers and activists have become concerned not only with the changing material conditions of Casablanca, but also with the city’s memory. This essay is concerned with two projects that reveal how nostalgic modes of recollection expose and limit geographies of cosmopolitan identity in the city. The first project, a collection of twelve booklets written by prominent novelists and poets wi…
Citizens and subjects in the bank
Citizens and subjects in the bank
Ruins, Rumors and Traces of the City of Brass
Through a reading of Moroccan writer Abdelkrim Jouiti's 1999 short story "Medina Al-Nuhhas" (The City of Brass), this essay seeks to understand how imagined global cities of the past function as imprisoning architectures of memory and how narrative space can be cleared to creatively imagine a new future. The essay argues that in re-telling multiple stories of the City of Brass, Jouiti's text works to expose multiple layers of nostalgia in dominan…
Art in the Streets
Every summer, cultural festivals take place all over Morocco, and streets in towns and cities become animated scenes for the articulation of Moroccan contemporary culture. So animated, heterogeneous and pluralistic has this festival scene become that the semiofficial newspaper for the Islamist PJD party has called these street festivals “vectors of decadence” and performing-artist union officials have declared that they feel threatened by the “fo…
Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan
In the past ten years, groups of local artists, architects, writers and activists have become concerned not only with the changing material conditions of Casablanca, but also with the city’s memory. This essay is concerned with two projects that reveal how nostalgic modes of recollection expose and limit geographies of cosmopolitan identity in the city. The first project, a collection of twelve booklets written by prominent novelists and poets wi…
Creative Reckonings
Zones of Perceptual Enclosure
This essay explores the imagination of the Moroccan bidonville as "captive space" in two recent francophone Moroccan novels: Mahi Binebine's Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen [The Stars of Sidi Moumen] (2010) and Naïma Lahbil Tagemouati's La Liste [The List] (2013). Drawing on theoretical work on the "zone of nonbeing" (Fanon), "perceptual enclosure" (Sekyi-Otu), and "conditions of appearance" (Gordon), the essay seeks to understand the aesthetics of im…
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)