Katarzyna Pieprzak is Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She is the author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco.

• Note on Translations and Transliterations  ixPreface. Unexpected Paths to Mass Housing  xiIntroduction. Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair  11. Sonic Repairs to the Grid: Art Engages the Epistemology of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca  272. Affecting Relation in Climat de France, Algiers: Decolonial Poetics and Embodied Ethics of Recognition  693. Remembering and Repairing Women’s Homes: Nanterre, Bidonville de la Folie  115Conclusion. Touching Feed and Moving Hands: Art’s Repair from Affective Gesture to Capacious Home  165Acknowledgments  173Notes  175Bibliography  195Index  205

“Poetics of Repair is a meticulously written, carefully nuanced analysis of the afterlives of colonialism as manifest in mass housing projects across an expanded Maghrebi context that includes urban space on both sides of the Mediterranean. Katarzyna Pieprzak reads artworks in a staggering array of media to give us a beautiful image of the ways in which art names and performs reparations that allow us to reimagine spaces otherwise all too often considered lost to squalor and despair.” - Hannah Feldman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania “Poetics of Repair is an amazing, entirely original work of bricolage (in the most laudatory sense) in which Katarzyna Pieprzak combines museology, art history, ethnography, literary criticism, and poetry. She teaches us to critically analyze the culture, typologies, and trans-Mediterranean genealogies of mass housing through the many interventions of contemporary artists. I can’t think of another book like it.” - Susan Slyomovics, author of (Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage)

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She is the author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco.

• Note on Translations and Transliterations  ixPreface. Unexpected Paths to Mass Housing  xiIntroduction. Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair  11. Sonic Repairs to the Grid: Art Engages the Epistemology of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca  272. Affecting Relation in Climat de France, Algiers: Decolonial Poetics and Embodied Ethics of Recognition  693. Remembering and Repairing Women’s Homes: Nanterre, Bidonville de la Folie  115Conclusion. Touching Feed and Moving Hands: Art’s Repair from Affective Gesture to Capacious Home  165Acknowledgments  173Notes  175Bibliography  195Index  205

“Poetics of Repair is a meticulously written, carefully nuanced analysis of the afterlives of colonialism as manifest in mass housing projects across an expanded Maghrebi context that includes urban space on both sides of the Mediterranean. Katarzyna Pieprzak reads artworks in a staggering array of media to give us a beautiful image of the ways in which art names and performs reparations that allow us to reimagine spaces otherwise all too often considered lost to squalor and despair.” - Hannah Feldman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania “Poetics of Repair is an amazing, entirely original work of bricolage (in the most laudatory sense) in which Katarzyna Pieprzak combines museology, art history, ethnography, literary criticism, and poetry. She teaches us to critically analyze the culture, typologies, and trans-Mediterranean genealogies of mass housing through the many interventions of contemporary artists. I can’t think of another book like it.” - Susan Slyomovics, author of (Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage)

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She is the author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco.

• Note on Translations and Transliterations  ixPreface. Unexpected Paths to Mass Housing  xiIntroduction. Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair  11. Sonic Repairs to the Grid: Art Engages the Epistemology of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca  272. Affecting Relation in Climat de France, Algiers: Decolonial Poetics and Embodied Ethics of Recognition  693. Remembering and Repairing Women’s Homes: Nanterre, Bidonville de la Folie  115Conclusion. Touching Feed and Moving Hands: Art’s Repair from Affective Gesture to Capacious Home  165Acknowledgments  173Notes  175Bibliography  195Index  205

“Poetics of Repair is a meticulously written, carefully nuanced analysis of the afterlives of colonialism as manifest in mass housing projects across an expanded Maghrebi context that includes urban space on both sides of the Mediterranean. Katarzyna Pieprzak reads artworks in a staggering array of media to give us a beautiful image of the ways in which art names and performs reparations that allow us to reimagine spaces otherwise all too often considered lost to squalor and despair.” - Hannah Feldman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania “Poetics of Repair is an amazing, entirely original work of bricolage (in the most laudatory sense) in which Katarzyna Pieprzak combines museology, art history, ethnography, literary criticism, and poetry. She teaches us to critically analyze the culture, typologies, and trans-Mediterranean genealogies of mass housing through the many interventions of contemporary artists. I can’t think of another book like it.” - Susan Slyomovics, author of (Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage)