Au-delà de la francophonie : Représentations de la pensée hybride au Maghreb (Abdelkebir Khatibi — Assia Djebar)

Neohelicon ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso de Toro
Keyword(s):  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Abdelkebir Khatibi

Decadent Orientalisms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fieni
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Abdelkebir Khatibi ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
Wide Range

This book explores the confluence of decadence and Orientalism since the mid-nineteenth century in French and Arabic writing. It demonstrates how French Orientalism set the terms of modernity for Arab and Muslim thinkers and writers, but also how the latter responded to and transformed these terms. The book argues that Orientalism is doubly decadent: it describes the supposedly inherent degeneration of the Semitic and the “Oriental,” and in so doing Orientalism attempts to contribute to the decay of these societies. Through comparative close readings of French, Francophone, and Arabic texts, the author outlines how notions and representations of decadence and decay during the colonial and postcolonial periods have in fact produced symbolic and social disintegration in parts of the Arab world. Part 1 of the book examines the role of philology, secularism, Islamic reformism, and colonial policy in the configurations of colonial modernity during the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on the Arab East (or Mashreq) and Algeria. Part 2 turns to Maghreb to explore the ways that loss becomes nationalized and gendered in the postcolonial era and how Maghrebi writers engage with the legacy of Orientalist decadence to find ways beyond it. In the context of these questions, it offers analyses of work by a wide range of writers, including Ernest Renan, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq, Farah Antun, Céline, Tahar Wattar, Tahir Djaout, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Yamina Méchakra, Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Abdelkebir Khatibi.

Assia Djebar en face à face avec Albert Camus

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Laura Klein
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
En Face

The Other Language, the Language of the Other in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous

MLN ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Corbin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Helene Cixous

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar ed. by Anne Donadey

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-192
Author(s):  
E. Nicole Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Approaches To Teaching

Abdelkébir Khatibi

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Transnational Studies ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Abdelkebir Khatibi ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Arabic Calligraphy

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.

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