Souffles-Anfas

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Olivia C. Harrison (University of Southern California); Teresa Villa-Ignacio (Tulane University)

Ed. by Lia Brozgal, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.1: North African Writing and Culture: Arabic, Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

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Date of occurrence 1966-03-1972

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Morocco (Location)

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Rabat, Casablanca, March 1966: a small group of poets and artists—Abdellatif Laâbi, Mostafa Nissaboury, Mohamed Khaïr-Eddine, Bernard Jakobiak, Mohamed Melehi, Hamid El Houadri, and Mohamed Fatha—publish the first issue of

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(in French, literally “breaths”, figuratively “inspirations”), a poetry and culture review that would serve as a conduit for experimental art and progressive politics in Morocco and beyond in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though several important cultural journals were launched in the decade following Moroccan independence from France in 1956 (most notably,

Lamalif

[

N-O

Afaq

[

Horizons

], and

Al-thaqafa al-jadida

[

The New Culture

]),

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was by far the most formative for post-independence Maghrebi writers. Its founding manifesto declared a…

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Citation: Harrison, Olivia C., Teresa Villa-Ignacio. "Souffles-Anfas". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 September 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19351, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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