ينظم مركز الدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية والاجتماعية بوجدة ، بتعاون مع كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية - جامعة محمد الأول- وجدة، يوما دراسيا في موضوع: الإبداعات المغربية المكتوبة باللغة الإنجليزية يوم الأربعاء 25 صفر1431 / 10 فبراير 2010  بقاعة نداء السلام – كلية الآداب – وجدة

  The Moroccan literary scene has witnessed during the last two decades the notable emergence of a new phenomenon that consists in the birth and the rise of a literature written in English. Many native writers from both inside and outside Morocco have in fact chosen the English language as a medium to channel their creative writings and to try their hands at different literary genres: poetry, novel, drama, short story and travel accounts. Thus writers such as H. Mekouar (Rabat), A. Akbib (Tetouan), J. Elkoudia (Fes), A. Radi (Marrakesh) and M. Dellal (Oujda), have produced literary texts that really call for due critical and academic consideration. Similarly, writers living abroad like A. Majid, L. Lalami, D. Temsamani and M. Fandi have published literary and cultural texts that have even commanded some international recognition.
      So far, no special conference or study day has been organized in Morocco to study or discuss the aforementioned phenomenon. That is why CERHSO is taking the initiative to instigate some critical and scholarly interest in this new Moroccan literature of English expression…. CERHSO will organize this study day in cooperation with the English Department of the Faculty of Letters - Oujda. Participants can deal with any one of these—and other related—subjects:
1. Why do these Moroccan authors choose to write in English, a third (and sometimes fourth) language?
2. What can be said about the themes and the techniques that are deployed in these writings?
3. To what extent could we categorize this literature as Moroccan?
4. To what extent is it part of what is called ‘postcolonial literature’?
5. Can it have the same success as its counterpart written in French? What about its future?




9.00    Opening Ceremony:
          (Moderator: Mimoune Daoudi)
9.20 Keynote Speech:

Prof. Mohamed Dellal (On Writing When the Wind of the Atlas Blows)
10.00    Discussion
10.15  Tea Break
10:30  Panel I: 

Language, Narration and
(De-Colonization):
(Moderator: Omar Bsathi)

10.30 Mohamed Guamgami: Moroccan Writers and the English Language Question

10.50  Mohamed Belamghari: Is the 21st century the beginning of an era for  Moroccan  literature written in English?!

11.10  Hassan Hakim: On History and  Creative Writing in English

11.30  J.aouad Radouani: Bleak Moods and Character Corruption: A Reading in M. Dellal’s ‘The Homecoming’
11.50  Discussion


15.00  Panel II:

Representing Self  and Other:

(Moderator: Abdennour Kharraki)


15.00  Mimoune Daoudi:
From Nostalgia to Critique:  Engagement in Moroccan American Literature : L. Lalami’s “The Turning Tide” as a case study.


15.20  Ilham Boutob:
Two Moroccan Texts, Two Opposite  Visions of America


15.40 Mohamed Bakhti:
Some Humble Remarks on Kh. Chaouch’s Humble Odysseys

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16.00 Discussion

16.15 Tea Break


16.15 Panel III:
Postconiality, Subalternity and Artistic Expression: 
(Moderator: Mohamed Dellal).

16.15:    Limame Barbouchi:
Moroccan Literature in English: Beyond Post-colonial binary opposition Framework

16.35  Hanae Belhassani:
Voices from the Margin

16.55  Mohamed Elkouche:
The Post-coloniality of Moroccan Literature

17.15  Discussion