Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and
silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that
lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural
production concerning the "years of lead"-a period of
authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco's
independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999-to
examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in
reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in
Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.
The book shows how Moroccan cultural production has become an
other-archive: a set of textual, sonic, embodied, and visual sites
that recover real or reimagined voices of these formerly suppressed
and silenced constituencies of Moroccan society. Combining
theoretical discussions with close reading of literary works, the
book reenvisions both archives and the nation in postcolonial
Morocco. By producing other-archives, Moroccan cultural creators
transform the losses state violence inflicted on society during the
years of lead into a source of civic engagement and
historiographical agency, enabling the writing of histories about
those Moroccans who have been excluded from official documentation
and state-sanctioned histories. The book is multilingual and
interdisciplinary, examining primary sources in Amazigh/Berber,
Arabic, Darija, and French, and drawing on memory studies, literary
theory, archival studies, anthropology, and historiography. In
addition to showing how other-archives are created and operate, El
Guabli elaborates how language, gender, class, race, and
geographical distribution are co-constitutive of a historical and
archival unsilencing that is foundational to citizenship in Morocco
today.
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