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Title:Abdelkébir Khatibi: writing a dynamic identity
Author:Mdarhri-Alaoui, Abdallah
Year:1992
Periodical:Research in African Literatures
Volume:23
Issue:2
Pages:167-175
Language:English
Geographic term:Morocco
Subject:literature
About person:'Abd al-Kabir al-Katibi (1938-2009)ISNI
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820403
Abstract:The work of the writer Abdelkébir Khatibi from Morocco is remarkable for its dedication to the same theme for more than twenty years: an interrogation of the identity of the subject. But from one work to the next, his analysis becomes increasingly profound because he raises new questions and develops new insights, situating them in an intersemiotic matrix that gives expression to the results obtained by a variety of the human sciences. In essence, Khatibi explores the question of identity within the context of the human as seen from multiple points of view. Simultaneously autobiographical and fictional, Khatibi's narrative blends poetic and philosophical elements with narration. The interaction of genres and intertextuality are determining factors in his aesthetics of the unity-alterity dialectic, the practices of which enrich the text with new enunciatory values. Games of language and thought have enabled Khatibi, who continues to search for himself in a vital and creative manner, to transmit his vision of the world to others in the form of literary texts. Labouring on the margins and breathing new life into sameness by injecting it with difference, Khatibi's texts might seem opaque, esoteric, and foreign. But the anxiety that characterizes them is salutary for anyone who desires to transcend a reassuring but 'blind' identity. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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