Moroccan Berberity, Representational Power and Identity in Video Films

Bibliographic Data

ID9848702
AuthorsSandra Gayle Carter (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume63
Issue2-3
Pages241-262
Publication date2001-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549201063002009
OpenAlexW2106920759
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited5

A long-term struggle between the Moroccan state and its large Berber culture-groups lies at the heart of this article about Moroccan Berber-language media, specifically video films in Tachelhit. The article analyzes the historical context of Moroccan nation-state constraints on Berber identity, with a special focus on the repression of media, particularly audiovisual media, in Berber languages. Included is discussion of a newly emergent form of Moroccan alternative media - Tachel-hit-language video films - and their multiple functions for Berbers. Berber-language video films recuperate marginalized Berber speakers into nationally and internationally circulating media as both producers and consumers, and break the stranglehold of Moroccan state-controlled media and culture. They help support the Berber ethnic revival/national heterogeneity movement, they represent and valorize within context cultural forms that are `folklorized' at the national level, and they insert new representers, representations and subjects into Berber cultural memory

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Linguistics · Media studies · National identity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature

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