2018 2018-11-13 10.17192/meta.2018.11.7808 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-229-78087 keine Angabe Therapeutic History and the Enduring Memories of Violence in Algeria and Morocco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 public -Frei abrufbar This article examines the experience of transitional justice and its relation to collective memory of authoritarian repression in Morocco (1965-1992) and the Civil War in Algeria (1991-2002). It confronts and compares to the two states’ therapeutic historical discourse produced to heal the national community after these periods of violence and its impact on the countries’ historians, journalists, filmmakers, and novelists from 2004 to 2017. The article argues that Algeria and Morocco’s rigorous definition of the “victim” during these two episodes (the imprisoned and disappeared) excluded the way communities suffered during this period and, as a result, has delayed healing, forgiveness, and national reconciliation. This article highlights the limits of two overpoliticized processes of transitional justice in the Maghreb and their limited conception of what it meant to “come to terms with the past.” However, it finds optimism in the ongoing efforts by new historiography and cultural actors to confront the lasting traumatic aftermaths outside of official definitions and on their own terms. Therapeutic History Authoritarianism Transitional Justice Maghreb Collective Memory

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This article examines the experience of transitional justice and its relation to collective memory of authoritarian repression in Morocco (1965-1992) and the Civil War in Algeria (1991-2002). It confronts and compares to the two states’ therapeutic historical discourse produced to heal the national community after these periods of violence and its impact on the countries’ historians, journalists, filmmakers, and novelists from 2004 to 2017. The article argues that Algeria and Morocco’s rigorous definition of the “victim” during these two episodes (the imprisoned and disappeared) excluded the way communities suffered during this period and, as a result, has delayed healing, forgiveness, and national reconciliation. This article highlights the limits of two overpoliticized processes of transitional justice in the Maghreb and their limited conception of what it meant to “come to terms with the past.” However, it finds optimism in the ongoing efforts by new historiography and cultural actors to confront the lasting traumatic aftermaths outside of official definitions and on their own terms. Therapeutic History 2018-11-26 2018-11-13 application/pdf Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Therapeutic History and the Enduring Memories of Violence in Algeria and Morocco Authoritarianism article 2018 Transitional Justice Vol 11 (2018) Trauma 2196-629X 2013 Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) Middle East - Topics + Arguments Periodical General history of Asia; Middle East https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/cover.png Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2714728-9 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00030 PeriodicalPart urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-2295 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/229/cover.png 11 2018 application/pdf 2018-11-13 2018-11-13 Maghreb Collective Memory https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/229/7808/7808.png Idriss Jebari Jebari, Idriss https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2018.11.7808 English urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-229-78087

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