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Article: La langue de l'autre.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Abdelkebir Khatibi. La langue de l'autre. New York. Les Mains Secretes. 1999. 95 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-9665360-2-0.
IN LA LANGUE DE L'AUTRE (The Language of the Other), Abdelkebir Khatibi, in an attempt to forge a poetics of the self, relies on juxtaposition and collage whereby memory, storytelling, and reportage are brought to bear on each other and create a sense -- or at least a simulacrum -- of coherence and continuity. His book, which is mostly a combination of the deja vu and the new, tends to resist linearity and taxonomy, thus reflecting the deconstructive poetics of Khatibi and of his mentor, Jacques Derrida. In offering to define the "language of the ...