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'''Souffles: revue maghrébine littéraire et culturelle''' was an French and Arabic language literary magazine published in Rabat, Morocco, between 1966 and 1972. Twenty-two numbers appeared.
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[[Image:Casablanca_School_exhibition_1968.jpg|thumb|258px|View from exhibition of Casablanca School of Fine Arts, 1968, printed in ''Souffles'' 10-11.]]
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'''Souffles: revue maghrébine littéraire et culturelle''' was an French and Arabic language literary magazine published in Rabat, Morocco, between 1966 and 1971. Twenty-two numbers appeared.
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"This slim booklet contains dynamite," wrote ''Policy'' in its 1966 review of new Moroccan quarterly magazine, ''Souffles''. Instigated by a small group of self-professed "linguistic guerrillas" as "a manifesto for a new aesthetics in the Maghreb", it became a conduit for a new generation of writers, artists, and intellectuals to stage a revolution against imperialist and colonial cultural domination. The starting point for this revolution was language.
 
"This slim booklet contains dynamite," wrote ''Policy'' in its 1966 review of new Moroccan quarterly magazine, ''Souffles''. Instigated by a small group of self-professed "linguistic guerrillas" as "a manifesto for a new aesthetics in the Maghreb", it became a conduit for a new generation of writers, artists, and intellectuals to stage a revolution against imperialist and colonial cultural domination. The starting point for this revolution was language.
  
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From its first issue, ''Souffles'' posed an aggressive challenge to the traditional Francophone and Arabophone literary divides by encouraging experimentation, translations and collaborations. It wasn’t long before its trademark cover emblazoned with an intense black sun radiated throughout Africa, the Arab world, West Indies and the Black Atlantic. In the early 1970s the magazine changed focus. Motivated by the crushing Arab defeat in Six-Day War and the Paris uprisings, its founder, editor and publisher Abdellatif Laâbi declared that "literature was no longer sufficient." After the 15th issue, dedicated to Palestine, ''Souffles'' underwent a major redesign, emerging as a new firebrand organ of leftist revolutionary group, Ila al-Amam. This new political agenda caught the attention of the authorities and in 1972 the magazine was banned and Laâbi arrested. While in prison he was awarded several international poetry prizes. After a long solidarity campaign, he regained his freedom in 1980.
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From its first issue, ''Souffles'' posed an aggressive challenge to the traditional Francophone and Arabophone literary divides by encouraging experimentation, translations and collaborations. It wasn’t long before its trademark cover emblazoned with an intense black sun radiated throughout Africa, the Arab world, West Indies and the Black Atlantic. In the early 1970s the magazine changed focus. Motivated by the crushing Arab defeat in Six-Day War and the Paris uprisings, its founder, editor and publisher [http://www.laabi.net/ Abdellatif Laâbi] declared that "literature was no longer sufficient." After the 15th issue, dedicated to Palestine, ''Souffles'' underwent a major redesign, emerging as a new firebrand organ of leftist revolutionary group, Ila al-Amam. This new political agenda caught the attention of the authorities and in 1972 the magazine was banned and Laâbi arrested. While in prison he was awarded several international poetry prizes. After a long solidarity campaign, he regained his freedom in 1980.
  
 
''Souffles'' was inspired by [[Frantz Fanon]]'s ''[[Fanon#Fanon1961|The Wretched of the Earth]]'', as well as early postcolonial writers such Aime Cesaire, Mario de Andrade, and René Depestre and journals like ''Presence Africaine''. Since its demise, few publications have matched its stature, appeal, or intellectual authority. Its influence can however be felt in contemporary magazines such as ''Le Journal'', ''Nichane'' and ''Biddoun''." [http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/souffles (Source)].
 
''Souffles'' was inspired by [[Frantz Fanon]]'s ''[[Fanon#Fanon1961|The Wretched of the Earth]]'', as well as early postcolonial writers such Aime Cesaire, Mario de Andrade, and René Depestre and journals like ''Presence Africaine''. Since its demise, few publications have matched its stature, appeal, or intellectual authority. Its influence can however be felt in contemporary magazines such as ''Le Journal'', ''Nichane'' and ''Biddoun''." [http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/souffles (Source)].
  
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Up to the double issue 10-11, the magazine was in French only, afterwards it also included Arabic section entitled ''Anfâs''. The magazine cover was designed by painter Mohamed Melehi.
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Up to the double issue 10-11, the magazine was in French only, afterwards it also included an Arabic section entitled ''Anfâs''. The magazine cover was designed by the painter Mohammed Melehi.
  
 
==Issues==
 
==Issues==
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* [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ListeVol.aspx?IDC=3 PDFs on the website of Bibliothèque nationale du royaume du Maroc]
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[[Image:Souffles 1 1966.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 1 (1966). [[Media:Souffles 1 1966.pdf|PDF]] (27 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=822 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s1/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 2 1966.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 2 (1966). [[Media:Souffles 2 1966.pdf|PDF]] (17 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=713 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s2/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 3 1966.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 3 (1966). [[Media:Souffles 3 1966.pdf|PDF]] (31 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=714 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s3/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 4 1966.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 4 (1966). [[Media:Souffles 4 1966.pdf|PDF]] (25 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=715 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s4/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 5 1967.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 5 (1967). [[Media:Souffles 5 1967.pdf|PDF]] (17 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=716 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s5/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 6 1967.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 6 (1967). [[Media:Souffles 6 1967.pdf|PDF]] (47 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=458 PDF], [http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/souffles/s6/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 7-8 1967.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 7-8 (1967). [[Media:Souffles 7-8 1967.pdf|PDF]] (53 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=459 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S0708EMP/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 9 1968.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 9 (1967). [[Media:Souffles 9 1968.pdf|PDF]] (33 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=717 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S09DRAF_/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 10-11 1968.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 10-11 (1968). [[Media:Souffles 10-11 1968.pdf|PDF]] (29 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=461 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/s1011/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 12 1968.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 12 (1968). [[Media:Souffles 12 1968.pdf|PDF]] (46 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=462 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/s12/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 13-14 1969.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 13-14 (1969). [[Media:Souffles 13-14 1969.pdf|PDF]] (35 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=463 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/s1314/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 15 1969.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 15 (1969). [[Media:Souffles 15 1969.pdf|PDF]] (76 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=464 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/s15/0.html HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 16-17 1969.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 16-17 (1969). [[Media:Souffles 16-17 1969.pdf|PDF]] (62 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=465 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S1617/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 18 1970.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 18 (1970). [[Media:Souffles 18 1970.pdf|PDF]] (69 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=6336 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S18/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 19 1970.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 19 (1970). [[Media:Souffles 19 1970.pdf|PDF]] (79 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=6337 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S19/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 20-21 1971.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 20-21 (1971). [[Media:Souffles 20-21 1971.pdf|PDF]] (47 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=468 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S2021/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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[[Image:Souffles 22 1971.jpg|thumb|185px|''Souffles'' 22 (1971). [[Media:Souffles 22 1971.pdf|PDF]] (62 mb), [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/pdf.aspx?IDc=469 PDF], [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/S22/0_1.HTM HTML].]]
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* [http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ListeVol.aspx?IDC=3 The above PDFs are sourced from & linked to the website of Bibliothèque nationale du royaume du Maroc]
 
* [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/ HTML versions of all 22 numbers]
 
* [http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanhum/langlit/french/souffles/ HTML versions of all 22 numbers]
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==Anthology==
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/vgM4fu-3N_4stPsQuwfRE9EwsbwXxul8era7lLsqr2QxMKWk Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology From the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics]'', eds. Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Stanford University Press, 2015. {{en}}
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* Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, ''First Breaths'', trans. Jake Syersak, Atlanta, GA: Oomph Press, 2019, 25 pp. A translation, from the original French, of all the works Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine contributed to the first two issues of ''Souffles'' in 1966. [http://www.oomphpress.com/first-breaths-by-mohammed-khar-eddine] {{en}}
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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** [http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1869&lang=de "Schwarze Sonne der Erneuerung"], ''Springerin'' 12:4 (Fall 2006). {{de}}
 
** [http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1869&lang=de "Schwarze Sonne der Erneuerung"], ''Springerin'' 12:4 (Fall 2006). {{de}}
 
** [http://www.red-thread.org/tr/makale.asp?a=41 "Yenilenmenin Kara Güneşi"], trans. Gülin Ekinci, ''Red Thread'' 2 (2010). {{tr}}
 
** [http://www.red-thread.org/tr/makale.asp?a=41 "Yenilenmenin Kara Güneşi"], trans. Gülin Ekinci, ''Red Thread'' 2 (2010). {{tr}}
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=rQbiP0M5tCUC&pg=PA251 "Souffles"], in ''Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent'', Johannesburg, 2007. {{en}}
 
* Issandr El Amrani, [http://archive.bidoun.org/magazine/13-glory/in-the-beginning-there-was-souffles-by-issandr-el-amrani/ "In the Beginning There was Souffles"], ''Bidoun'' 13 (2008).
 
* Issandr El Amrani, [http://archive.bidoun.org/magazine/13-glory/in-the-beginning-there-was-souffles-by-issandr-el-amrani/ "In the Beginning There was Souffles"], ''Bidoun'' 13 (2008).
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* Andy Stafford, [http://sci-hub.cc/10.1080/14794010903069060 "Tricontinentalism in Recent Moroccan Intellectual History: The Case of ''Souffles''"], ''Journal of Transatlantic Studies'' 7:3 (2009), pp 218-232. {{en}}
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* Andy Stafford, [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14794010903069060 "Tricontinentalism in Recent Moroccan Intellectual History: The Case of ''Souffles''"], ''Journal of Transatlantic Studies'' 7:3 (2009), pp 218-232. {{en}}
 
* Kenza Sefrioui, [http://academia.edu/4135566/ "La revue ''Souffles'' (1966-1973): quand culture rime avec politique"], ''Interculturel/Francophonie'' 16 (2009). {{fr}}
 
* Kenza Sefrioui, [http://academia.edu/4135566/ "La revue ''Souffles'' (1966-1973): quand culture rime avec politique"], ''Interculturel/Francophonie'' 16 (2009). {{fr}}
 
* Kenza Sefrioui, ''La revue Souffles 1966-1973. Espoirs de révolution culturelle au Maroc'', pref. Abdellatif Laâbi, Casablanca: Sirocco, 2013. [https://la-plume-francophone.com/2013/05/19/kenza-sefrioui-la-revue-souffles-1966-1973-espoirs-de-revolution-culturelle-au-maroc/]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz5VNk6nBdM Video interview with author]. {{fr}}
 
* Kenza Sefrioui, ''La revue Souffles 1966-1973. Espoirs de révolution culturelle au Maroc'', pref. Abdellatif Laâbi, Casablanca: Sirocco, 2013. [https://la-plume-francophone.com/2013/05/19/kenza-sefrioui-la-revue-souffles-1966-1973-espoirs-de-revolution-culturelle-au-maroc/]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz5VNk6nBdM Video interview with author]. {{fr}}
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* [http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/souffles Souffles in Chimurenga Library]
 
* [http://chimurengalibrary.co.za/souffles Souffles in Chimurenga Library]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souffles_(magazine) Souffles on Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souffles_(magazine) Souffles on Wikipedia]
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* [http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/souffles-anfas Event at CUNY], 1 Nov 2016.

Revision as of 21:03, 5 July 2019

View from exhibition of Casablanca School of Fine Arts, 1968, printed in Souffles 10-11.

Souffles: revue maghrébine littéraire et culturelle was an French and Arabic language literary magazine published in Rabat, Morocco, between 1966 and 1971. Twenty-two numbers appeared.

"This slim booklet contains dynamite," wrote Policy in its 1966 review of new Moroccan quarterly magazine, Souffles. Instigated by a small group of self-professed "linguistic guerrillas" as "a manifesto for a new aesthetics in the Maghreb", it became a conduit for a new generation of writers, artists, and intellectuals to stage a revolution against imperialist and colonial cultural domination. The starting point for this revolution was language.

From its first issue, Souffles posed an aggressive challenge to the traditional Francophone and Arabophone literary divides by encouraging experimentation, translations and collaborations. It wasn’t long before its trademark cover emblazoned with an intense black sun radiated throughout Africa, the Arab world, West Indies and the Black Atlantic. In the early 1970s the magazine changed focus. Motivated by the crushing Arab defeat in Six-Day War and the Paris uprisings, its founder, editor and publisher Abdellatif Laâbi declared that "literature was no longer sufficient." After the 15th issue, dedicated to Palestine, Souffles underwent a major redesign, emerging as a new firebrand organ of leftist revolutionary group, Ila al-Amam. This new political agenda caught the attention of the authorities and in 1972 the magazine was banned and Laâbi arrested. While in prison he was awarded several international poetry prizes. After a long solidarity campaign, he regained his freedom in 1980.

Souffles was inspired by Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, as well as early postcolonial writers such Aime Cesaire, Mario de Andrade, and René Depestre and journals like Presence Africaine. Since its demise, few publications have matched its stature, appeal, or intellectual authority. Its influence can however be felt in contemporary magazines such as Le Journal, Nichane and Biddoun." (Source).

Up to the double issue 10-11, the magazine was in French only, afterwards it also included an Arabic section entitled Anfâs. The magazine cover was designed by the painter Mohammed Melehi.

Issues

Souffles 1 (1966). PDF (27 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 2 (1966). PDF (17 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 3 (1966). PDF (31 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 4 (1966). PDF (25 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 5 (1967). PDF (17 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 6 (1967). PDF (47 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 7-8 (1967). PDF (53 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 9 (1967). PDF (33 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 10-11 (1968). PDF (29 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 12 (1968). PDF (46 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 13-14 (1969). PDF (35 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 15 (1969). PDF (76 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 16-17 (1969). PDF (62 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 18 (1970). PDF (69 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 19 (1970). PDF (79 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 20-21 (1971). PDF (47 mb), PDF, HTML.
Souffles 22 (1971). PDF (62 mb), PDF, HTML.

Anthology

Literature

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