Francophone Voices of the New Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Soci [Paperback]

This study of Moroccan society explores the country's culture through its literature, journalism and film. It examines transitions from traditionalism to modernity within the conflicted polemics of the post-9/11 world. Addresses issues including feminism, sexuality, gender and human rights and how they are conveyed in Moroccan media.Introduction: Enunciating the Unsaid and the Historically 'Inconceivable' in the Words of Contemporary Francophone Morocco The Power of Engagement: Writing in/on the Front Lines of Politics and Culture in the New Morocco The Texts of Human Rights: Moroccan Prison Testimonials by Victims of the Lead Years Publishing Women: The Feminine Voices of Social Activists Sexuality, Gender, and the Homoerotic Novel of the New Morocco TelQuel: Morocco as it is in the Journals, Magazines and Newspapers of the Francophone Press The Humanist Individual in Contemporary Morocco Morocco on the Screen: Cinema in the New Morocco

Orlando concludes with the responsibility of the authors, directors, readers and spectators who must renegotiate historical memory and actually ameliorate reality; she engages us in a dialogue with a part of the world that is often misunderstood. An excellent reflection on civilization, and a precise anthology on literature, cinematography, and Moroccan media, her study, accessible to all, addresses a very broad and varied readership: university faculty, students, or lovers of Morocco and Moroccan culture. - French Review

A most welcome departure from the focus on canonic North African francophone writers that still often exists in American and French universities...Orlando succeeds in documenting how recent fiction and film represent contemporary issues in Moroccan society, and in this regard, provides a valuable roadmap to post-1999 Moroccan cultural production. - Research in African Literatures

In Morocco today, writers and filmmakers view themselves as political and cultural activlS%