Narrating Tazmamart
Visceral contestations of Morocco’s transitional justice and democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7407395 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naïma Hachad (World Languages and Cultures, American University, Washington, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 208-224 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2018.1400775 |
| OpenAlex | W2768298192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article argues that Tazmamart narratives, relating the experience of Moroccan inmates disappeared and unlawfully detained for eighteen years in a secret camp, are exemplary within literary and visual accounts of the Years of Lead. Despite their different styles, genre, and media, stories inspired by Morocco’s most hostile detention and torture centres under King Hassan II’s reign (1961–1999) form a distinct ensemble that encompasses significant issues pertinent to the discussion of the country’s dark past and its memorialisation. Memoirs, fictionalised memoirs, and documentaries produced by survivors, activists, and cultural actors and their reception pose urgent questions that haunt Morocco’s post-Years of Lead transitional democracy and justice: who has the right to tell stories of sate sponsored human rights abuse? In what form? For whom? How many times? What sociopolitical lessons should be learned from the past? The different language and storytelling techniques they deploy also urge us to rethink the interconnection between local and universal aesthetics and their role in the emancipation of individual and collective bodies within specific local contexts
Art · Democracy · Economic Justice · Emancipation · Human rights · Literature · Memoir · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Torture · Transitional justice · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · North African History and Literature
Unspeakable Truths
A Truth Commission for Morocco
A History of Modern Morocco
Unclaimed Experience
Remembering Violence, Negotiating Change
Marzouki Ahmed, Tazmamart cellule 10, Paris, Casablanca, Éditions Paris-Méditerranée / Tarik Éditions, 2000
Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print
Testimonio and Postmodernism
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |