Dec 03
2011Notes on Abdelkebir Khatibi
A recent issue of the PMLA contains a small collection of essays by the late Moroccan novelist, critic, and sociologist Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009). In David Fieni’s brief introduction to these essays, he speaks at some length of Khatibi’s friendship with Jacques Derrida in the context of Khatibi’s and Derrida’s theories (sometimes shared, sometimes differing) regarding monolingualism, colonialism, and the possibility of a “poetics of hospitality.”
