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Paraska Tolan Szkilnik is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her BA from Brandeis University in 2011 and an MA from the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in 2014, working on the relationship between Senegal and Tunisia in the 1960s and 70s. Her doctoral work is concerned with the history of cultural Pan-Africanism in the Maghreb in the decades following independence. Moving away from the strictly political approach of much of the literature on Pan-Africanism, her dissertation reconsiders the history of Pan-Africanism in the postcolonial period by centering on three Maghrebi cultural spaces of encounter between Black and non-Black African and Diaspora artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (JCC), the Moroccan literary journal Souffles, and the Pan-African Festival of Algiers of 1969 (PANAF).
Beginning in Morocco, this podcast follows the adventures of a group of Luso-African poets and militants (chief amongst them Mario de Andrade, Marcelino dos Santos and Aquino Bragança) from Paris to Rabat. Starting in the late 1950s, these young militants used Rabat as a home-base for anti-colonial activism in the Portuguese colonies. The Moroccan government provided them with passports, headquarters, press coverage, and weapons. Morocco also served as a liberated space, on the African continent, to imagine what one could be in the wake of empire. In Rabat, these militant-poets met young Moroccan writers who were haunted by similar concerns over their role in the postcolonial world, amongst them poet Abdellatif Laabi founder of the Moroccan literary journal Souffles. Over the course of its seven years of publication, 1966-1973, Souffles took off from a marginal Moroccan literary journal to a paper caucus through which writers from across the African diaspora called for an African cultural revolution. On the pages of this shabby 30-something page journal, Laabi welcomed contributions from Haitian poet René Depestre, Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, Angolan insurgent Mario de Andrade, and Cape Verdean militant Amilcar Cabral. Working in tandem with these writers, the journal provided a platform to discuss the great issues of the decade: decolonization, Marxism-Leninism, civil rights in the United States, and of course Portuguese colonialism.
This episode is part of the Arts and Letters in the Maghrib series and was recorded on November 8th, 2018 at the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), in Tunis, Tunisia.
The music in the introduction and conclusion of this podcast was performed by street artists on Avenue Bouguiba, Tunis, Tunisia.
Posted by Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).
Alger, capitale de la révolution. De Fanon aux Black Panthers
The Monopoly of Criminal Justice and the Formulation of State-Society Relations in Morocco
La socio-anthropologie rurale. Structure, organisation et changement au Maghreb
La Méditerranée aux yeux des géographes maghrébins au Moyen Âge
Moroccan-American Archaeological Project of Ancient Sijilmasa
Making the Dinar, Producing the State in Postcolonial Tunisia
Workshop sur « Écriture, mémoire et histoire »: Écrire ses mémoires ou comment parler de soi ?
Land, Labor, and Youth Aspirations in the Gharb, Morocco
The Husyanid Dynasty and Spatial Control and Judicial Control of the Enslaved Blacks of Tunis
Volunteer Networks in the Mediterranean / Réseaux de volontariat en Méditerranée
Le Prix de l'Engagement Politique dans la Tunisie Autoritaire
Moroccan Shari’a In The Age Of Colonialism
Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979
Interview with Mieczysław Boduszyński about his book: U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Arab World: Beyond Interests vs. Ideals
Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces: Islam, Security, and Social Movements in Tunisia
Contrôler la Casbah: la police coloniale à Alger et Marseille, 1920-1950
William Wordsworth and te French Revolution
Tuning in to Morocco’s “Recitational Revival”
l'Oasis de Jemna en Tunisie, entre dissidence et négociation
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