Poetics of Repair

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Katarzyna Pieprzak

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Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa.

Contenu

Note on Translations and Transliterations ix
Preface. Unexpected Paths to Mass Housing xi
Introduction. Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair 1

1. Sonic Repairs to the Grid: Art Engages the Epistemology of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca 27
2. Affecting Relation in Climat de France, Algiers: Decolonial Poetics and Embodied Ethics of Recognition 69
3. Remembering and Repairing Women’s Homes: Nanterre, Bidonville de la Folie 115
   Conclusion. Touching Feed and Moving Hands: Art’s Repair from Affective Gesture to Capacious Home 165
   Acknowledgments 173
   Notes 175
   Bibliography 195
   Index 205