CFP: Latin America and the Maghreb (1 March)
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CFP: “Latin America and the Maghreb: Currents and Counter-Currents” Souffles (Winter 2026)
From 1966 to 1972, the Moroccan-based magazine Souffles-Anfas published twenty-two issues addressing the challenges of cultural decolonization and Third Worldism. Souffles was the first Tri-Continental publication - launched shortly after the Tri-Continental Solidarity Conference of Havana in January 1966 - and a pioneer in building cultural and institutional ties between Latin America and North Africa. Souffles would forge a partnership with Casa de las Américas in Havana, publishing translations of Latin American writers. Casa de las Américas, in turn, carried advertisements for Souffles and translated works by Maghrebian writers. Souffles would publish essays on Brazilian cinema, Bolivian and Cuban politics, essays by Latin American thinkers like Mexican philosopher Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, and even organize a speaking tour for Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier in Morocco in February 1969.
Since its relaunch in September 2022, Souffles Monde has published several issues looking at the Maghreb’s place in Africa and the Middle East. To honor the 60th anniversary of Souffles and the Tri-Continental conference of Havana, we will devote the issue of Winter 2026 to the topic of “Latin America and the Maghreb.” We invite essays that look at cultural, intellectual, migratory and economic flows between Latin America, North Africa, and the larger Middle East, from the colonial era to the contemporary period. How did North African and Middle Eastern writers conceive of Latin America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries? How did Latin American writers and travelers view North Africa? We welcome proposals that look at post-colonial political and ideological interactions between these regions: the influence of political ideas (Tri-Continentalism, pan-nationalism, Peronism, Nasserism, Chavismo); intellectual trends (Orientalism, Andalucismo, dependency, decoloniality, indigenismo, feminism and gender movements); legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery; migration; arts and popular culture flows (music, visual arts, sports).
If interested, please submit a 300-word proposal to: souffl...@gmail.com
We welcome proposals in Arabic, English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Deadline: March 1 2025
https://www.soufflesmonde.com/
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