Abstract
In the last seven years, a new generation of Moroccan authors who write in Castilian and Catalonian proliferated. This literature, written in Morocco by Moroccans, with Moroccan topics and characters, is developing a series of questions about the use of the language of the Other, the aesthetic practices of Western literature, and a deeply critical observation on the influence of the Western media in Morocco. The authors I refer in this fourth group are not revolutionaries who fight for a return to the beginning of history in the future; they do not represent the typical liberal discourse that mystifies national emancipation against Spain; nor are they Indigenists who deny the history after the French and Spanish invasions. They propose, instead, to reconstruct their integrity from an Eastern and Western historical framework. In this sense, they recapture the historical identity of Morocco, a history that shares some characteristics with other post-colonialist literatures—a history that is conscious of the neocolonial relations that the new world order imposes. These authors also address the prolegomena of Madrid’s M-11 bombings while, at the same time, recreate the shadows of intolerance represented by a return to the darkest days of the 15th Century Inquisition and of Franco’s dictatorship. The “threat” of terrorism is answered in literary texts that, while writing Maghribi immigrants’ lives and arrival to Spain, are inundated by the ghosts of Spain's own Muslim past.
The works of Mohamed Abed al-Jabri, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Walter Mignolo and Enrique Dussel shape the theoretical frame of my paper.
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