The Shutters [Paperback]

 An atmosphere of mystery surrounds his work: Bouanani offers a precious contribution to Morocco's collective memory. A melancholy, hallucinatory, biting meditation.Bouananis work mocks authoritarianism and fanaticism, despairs of Moroccos democratic failure, and struggles to hold on to the cultural and historical inheritance its government is bent on erasing... A?scathing, fearsome, and hallucinatory collection. After the collective trauma of the colonial occupation of Morocco, a vanguard of artists forged cultural practices that sought to establish a new vision of the country, appealing to its ancient traditions passed down through oral culture. Filmmaker, poet, and writer Ahmed Bouanani was a towering presence in this landscape, pioneering a cinematic and poetic language that influenced a generation to come. This surreal poetry maps Moroccos cultural history, as Bouanani hauntingly evokes all of the violence inflicted on his country