Marrakesh and the Mountains Emil Bock and the Radical Imagination on

and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political "realism" that continue to suppress the radical imagination

as well as the histories that lie behind the achievements of cultural studies

although these two works are not anthologized in the textbook*Additional cultural contexts and author biographies for each text

as often embroiled in conflict as in any shared agenda

Tristan Denley

Marrakesh and the Mountains Emil Bock and the Radical Imagination onOver the course of the Almoravid (1040 1147) and Almohad (1121 1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city's surrounding landscape provided the principal mode of negotiation between these