Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb by Pieprzak, Katarzyna
Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb by Pieprzak, Katarzyna

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

Today, most colonial-era modernist mass housing is seen as fundamentally broken: crumbling concrete spaces of social alienation...
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Author: Katarzyna Pieprzak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb by Pieprzak, Katarzyna

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

$135.91
Poetics of Repair: Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb by Pieprzak, Katarzyna

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

$135.91
Author: Katarzyna Pieprzak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Katarzyna Pieprzak
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
ISBN: 9781478031284

About the Author
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.
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