
The Temporal Entanglements of Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
by Philip Rizk
The Temporal Entanglements of Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting
Philip Rizk’s upcoming edited volume Neocolonialism and its Dismantling puts in conversation Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth with the wave of mobilization that has moved across the Arabic-speaking world in the past 15 years, marked by the chant “the people want the fall of the system.” The book is a re-reading of Fanon’s final testament from the global neocolony, with an eye on strategies of its undoing.
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