Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco

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Imagined Museums This page intentionally left blank Imagined Museums Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco Katarzyna Pieprzak University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book from Williams College. A version of chapter 2 was published in Journal of North African Studies (Spring 2003). An earlier version of chapter 3 was published in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (Fall 2001). Two sections of chapter 5 were published in MESA Bulletin (Summer 2008) and Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literatures (Winter 2009). This previously published material is reprinted here, with alterations, by kind permission of the journals. Poetry from “Made in Morocco,” by Izhar, was first published in Lamalif 12 (May 1967): 18; reprinted with permission from Lamalif. Poetry from “Chebaâ” and “Table ronde,” by Abdellatif Laâbi, was first published in Abdellatif Laâbi, Petit musée portaif (Al Manar, 2001); reprinted with permission from Al Manar. Copyright 2010 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pieprzak, Katarzyna. Imagined museums : art and modernity in postcolonial Morocco / Katarzyna Pieprzak. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8166-6518-1 (hc : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8166-6519-8 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Art museums—Morocco. 2. Art and state—Morocco. 3. Postcolonialism and the arts—Morocco. I. Title. n3810.m8p54 2010 069.0964—dc22 2009031573 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...