Poetics of Repair

Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb

Katarzyna Pieprzak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2805-5 (ISBN)

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Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation and containment that fractured societies both then and now. In Poetics of Repair, 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 and France. Pieprzak dives deeply into contemporary art engagements with three mass housing sites that epitomize the French colonial geography of modernist architecture in the Maghreb. She identifies in this art what she names a transformative “poetics of repair”: a practice that conjoins, puts in relation, or simply brings closer together broken materials, separated people, and severed timelines. Reading art and its engagements with mass housing, Pieprzak argues, has the potential to unmoor established knowledge and rehearse the tensions and productive ambiguities inherent to practices of constitution and revision. She demonstrates that such a reading practice is a step toward a reparative epistemology for mass housing that turns sites of wreckage and alienation into sites of possible solidarities and new formulations of history and experience.

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She is the author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	43 color illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4780-2805-X / 147802805X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2805-5 / 9781478028055
Zustand	Neuware