Writing as resistance
Berber literature and the challenges surrounding the emergence of a Berber literary field in Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11046296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stéphanie Pouessel (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-394 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2012.674015 |
| OpenAlex | W2058414412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article discusses the development of Berber literature in Morocco and the connections between this literature and Moroccan national identity as well as the pan-Amazigh identity movement. Over the last 40 years, the political conjuncture in Morocco has led Berber writers to affirm an alternative definition of Moroccanness, not exclusively based on Arabness, but one in which Berberity is included. This article aims to shed light on modern Berber literature, and on the social space in which it is embedded. It argues that there is no autonomous Berber literary field, the literature being intrinsically bound up with identity issues, but a Berber literary space, located at the intermingling of several fields (the political field and the field of language production in particular). The article first reconstructs the Moroccan political context by exploring the Amazigh movement, its aspirations and its reality. It then focuses on the relationship between the language issues (alphabet, standardization, etc.) and the emergence of a Berber “neo-literature.” Lastly, it moves beyond Morocco into the wider pan-Berber world — the Maghreb and those countries to which Berbers have emigrated — to question the possibility of a transnational Berber literature
Aesthetics · Alphabet · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Variety (cybernetics · African Studies and Ethnography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
Beyond the Francophone Maghreb
The Novel in Morocco as Mirror of a Changing Society
The Changing Face of Morocco under King Hassan II
Specificity and independence of the literary game
Languages, politics and field theory — the question of the autonomy of small literatures
Cultural field and literature in minority languages
Literature and Amazigh language debates
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |