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Monthly Archives: January 2014

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Their Archives, Our History

January 6, 2014 by Tasnim

In Moroccan author Muhammad Barradah’s The Game of Forgetting (1998, Luʿbat al-Nisyān, 1987), there is a disagreement between a figure referred to as the author and another described as the narrator’s narrator, who objects to the author’s attempt to write history. As the narrator’s narrator points out: “You still live in a society that has not yet written its ancient history, let alone the fact that its modern history is surrounded with secrecy and its documents are hidden in sealed […]

Categories: Art, Literature, Video • Tags: Andalus, memorialization, memory, Museums

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