BOOKS with Karima Boudou
In this BOOKS program, art historian and curator Karima Boudou opens up her research into the remarkable life and archive of Mehdi Ben Barka (1920-1965). A politician and pan-Africanist, Ben Barka was also deeply engaged with literary and cultural life. Ben Barka is known as a major figure of Moroccan independence movement as well as a key instigator of the renowned 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana.
In tribute, Boudou will present two parallel lists of books. The first will be books on loan from the personal library of Ben Barka, while the second will be titles that have shaped Boudou’s own research and practice. Together these will reflect on the connection of our own historic times with the revolutionary and pan-Africanist era of the 1960s.
The program is presented with the support of Institut Mehdi BEN BARKA, Mémoire Vivante, and with special thanks to Bachir Ben Barka.
BOOKS FROM INSTITUT MEHDI BEN BARKA
Seydou Badian, Les dirigeants africains face à leur peuple, published by François Maspero, Cahiers Libres, Paris, 1964.
Fadela M’rabet, La femme algérienne, published by François Maspero, Cahiers Libres, Paris, 1967.
Fidel Castro, Étapes de la révolution cubaine, texts gathered by M. Merlier, published by François Maspero, Cahiers Libres, Paris, 1964.
Jacques Berque, Dépossession du monde, published by Aux Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1964.
Hocine Aït Ahmed, La Guerre et l’après-guerre, published by Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964.
Gilles Gozard, Demain, l’Amérique latine, published by Presses universitaires de France, 1964 (Institut d’étude du développement économique et social Tiers monde).
André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme, published by Gallimard, Collection Idées Nrf, Paris, 1963.
Albert Camus, L’homme révolté, published by Gallimard, Collection Idées Nrf, Paris, 1951.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive, published by Gallimard, Collection Idées Nrf, Paris, 1961.
Henri Corbin, Histoire de la philosophie islamique, published by Gallimard, Collection Idées Nrf, Paris, 1964.
Jean Meynaud and Anisse Salah-Bey, Le syndicalisme africain, published by Payot, Collection Études et Documents, Paris, 1963.
Kwame Nkrumah, Le Consciencisme, philosophie et Idéologie pour la décolonisation et le développement avec une référence particulière à la révolution africaine, published by Payot, Paris, 1964.
Jean Suret-Canale, Afrique noire - L’ère coloniale (1900-1945), published by Éditions sociales, 1961.
Suzanne Labin, Le Tiers Monde entre l'Est et l'Ouest. Vivre en dollars. Voter en roubles, published by La Table Ronde, Collection « L'Ordre du Jour », Paris, 1964.
Nguyễn Khắc Viện (under the name « Nguyen Kien »), Le Sud-Vietnam depuis Dien Bien Phu, published by François Maspero, Cahiers Libres, Paris, 1963.
Kwame Nkrumah, L’Afrique doit s’unir, published by Payot, Collection Études et Documents, Paris, 1964.
Jean Ziegler, La contre-révolution en Afrique, published by Payot, Collection Études et Documents, Paris, 1963.
BOOKS FROM THE PERSONAL SELECTION OF KARIMA BOUDOU
Philippe Artières, Attica USA 1971, Le Point Du Jour, 2017
James Baldwin, Another Country, Penguin Modern Classics. Original edition 1962, Dial Press*
Al-Mahdi Bin Barakah, The Political Thought of Ben Barka: I. Revolutionary Option in Morocco; II. Political Articles, 1960-1965,
Havana: Tricontinental, 1968 Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, Columbia University Press, 1992*
Darby English, How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, MIT Press, 2007*
Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims, Semiotext(e), 2013*
Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
Antoine Garnier, Souffle, au coeur de la génération hip-hop, entre New York et Paris, tome 1: New York 1986-1996, Alias, 2003
Antoine Garnier, Souffle, au coeur de la génération hip-hop, entre New York et Paris, tome 2: Paris 1996-2003, Alias, 2003
Adrian Piper, Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir, APRA Foundation, 2018* Edmund White, Genet: A Biography, Vintage, 1994