![]() ![]() Within this framework, other sociopolitical and cultural issues of postcolonial Morocco emerge in this rich and impressive prison literature. Of particular interest is the significance of the different dimensions of the subject of this prison-writing namely, the modes of memorialization, the cultivation of religiosity inside the jail and its relationship to the social fabric outside the jail, the methods of resistance developed by the prisoners to stand torture and secure survival, and – last but not least - the nature of the prison as a State apparatus (a Panopticon) endowed with a particular socio-politico-religious corrective mission that looks after the nature of imprisoned subjects who have wandered off “the right path.” The historical juncture that these writings are concerned with is post-independence Morocco, a period that has become known (in the language of Moroccan Human Rights culture) as “the Years of Lead” ("sanawaat arrassaass" in Arabic, or "les années de plomb" in French). The aim of this paper is the study of some recent Moroccan prison writings as a practice in the politics of memory. ![]()
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