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Requiem for Lilith - Act I (Hardcover)
Robert J S T J S T Mccartney; Contributions by Albert J Debusschere; Edited by Rachel Small
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Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of
revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be
published in Morocco. Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by
spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood,
in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. -from
Another Morocco In 2006, Abdellah Taia returned to his native
Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, Le
rouge du tarbouche (The Red of the Fez). During this book tour, he
was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel,
who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his
writing. Taia, who had not publically come out and feared the
repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country
where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless
consented to the interview and subsequent profile, "Homosexuel
envers et contre tous" ("Homosexual against All Odds"). This
interview made him the first openly gay writer to be published in
Morocco. Another Morocco collects short stories from Taia's first
two books, Mon Maroc (My Morocco) and Le rouge du tarbouche, both
published before this pivotal moment. In these stories, we see a
young writer testing the porousness of boundaries, flirting with
strategies of revelation and concealment. These are tales of life
in a working-class Moroccan family, of a maturing writer's fraught
relationship with language and community, and of the many cities
and works that have inspired him. With a reverence for the
subaltern-for the strength of women and the disenfranchised-these
stories speak of humanity and the construction of the self against
forces that would invalidate its very existence. Taia's work is,
necessarily, a political gesture.
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