Full Description
Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. The work is primarily composed of poets who began writing after Moroccan independence in 1956 and includes work written in Moroccan Arabic (darija), classical Arabic, French, and Tamazight.
Why Poetic Justice? Moroccan poetry (and especially zajal, oral poetry now written in Moroccan Arabic) is often published in newspapers and journals and is thus a vibrant form of social commentary; what's more, there is a law, a justice, in the aesthetic act that speaks back to the law of the land. Poetic Justice because literature has the power to shape the cultural and moral imagination in profound and just ways.
Reading this oeuvre from independence until the new millennium and beyond, it is clear that what poet Driss Mesnaoui calls the "letters of time" have long been in the hands of Moroccan poets, as they write their ethics, their aesthetics, as well as their gendered and political lives into poetic being.
Contents
Acknowledgments
On Translation and Ethnography
Abdelghani, Mahmoud
Achaari, Mohammed
Adnan, Taha
Adnan, Yassin
Aissa, Idriss
Akhrif, Mehdi
Alahyane, Ayad
Arouhal, Khadija
Ammach, Jamal
Azaykou, Ali Sedki
Azrhai, Abdelaziz
Barakat, Ahmed
Bassry, Aicha
Benchemsi, Rajae
Benjelloun, Abdelmajid
Benjelloun, Abdelmajid
Ben Jelloun, Tahar
Benmoussa, Ouidad
Bennis, Mohammed
Bentalha, Mohammed
Berrada, Omar
Bouanani, Ahmed
Boudouma, Jamal
Bouhlal, Siham
Boujbiri, Mohamed
Boussrif, Salah
Chebchoub, Fatima
Chouhad, Moulay Ali
El Aoufi, Boujema
El Assimi, Malika
El Hajjam, Allal
El Khassar, Abderrahim
El Khayat, Rita
El MaÏmouni, Mohamed
Elmannani, Abdellah
El Ouadie, Salah
El Ouazzani, Hassan
Farid, Mohamed (Zalhoud)
Guennouni, Mohammed-Khammar
Hamrouch, Abdeddine
Hmoudane, Mohamed
Houmir, Mostafa
Ikbal, Touria
Jouahri, Abderrafi
Kadiri, Mourad
Khatibi, AbdelkÉbir
KhaÏr-Eddine, Mohammed
Khaless, Rachid
Khoudari, Najib
LaÂlej, Ahmed Tayeb
LaÂbi, Abdellatif
Lahbabi, Mohammed Aziz
Lamrani, Wafaa
Lemsyeh, Ahmed
Loakira, Mohamed
Maadaoui, Mostafa
Madani, Rachida
Majdouline, Touria
Mansouri, Zohra
Mejjati, Ahmed
Meliani, Driss
Mesnaoui, Driss Amghar
Mesnaoui, Nafiss
Morchid, Fatiha
Moumni, Rachid
Mourad, Khireddine
Moussaoui, Abdesselem
Moussaoui, Jamal
Najmi, Hassan
Nissabouri, Mostafa
Ouagrar, Mohamed
Ouassat, Embarek
Oussous, Mohamed
Rabbaoui, Mohamed Ali
Rajie, Abdellah
Salhi, Mohammed
Sebbagh, Mohamed
Serghini, Mohamed
Serhane, Abdelhak
Serhani, Mounir
Souag, Moha
Tebbal, Abdelkrim
Zrika, Abdallah
