Tanger entre les deux
Between 1920 and 1960 Tanger was hub and utopia for experimental literature, art and counter-culture. Matisse, Bowles, Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac in the 1950s used Tanger as retreat and working-space. From the mid-twenties untill 1956 the Moroccan port-city was part of an "international zone" under joint administration of seven countries. During that time "The Zone" had a reputation for diversity of culture and religion which concerned the Moroccan population who saw it as "a plague zone infested and infected by infidels". There was no army, no social-taxes (and of course no social-system), no real law enforcement, drug-use and homosexuality were "tolerated". In 1958 Paul Bowles wrote, that in Tanger, "there is nothing left to spoil".
This issue focuses on the contrast between todays Tanger, its present economical and socio-political situation and its past as a hub of experimental culture and colonialist western projections.
Tanger entre les deux
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