Aspects de l’écriture de la différence dans quelques textes de Abdelkébir Khatibi : identité plurielle, pensée-autre, bi-langue et extranéité
Aspects of writing about difference in some of Abdelkébir Khatibi's texts: plural identity, thought-other, bi-language, and extraneity

Summary/Abstract: This article seeks to analyse some aspects and modalities of the writing of surpassing, in Abdelkébir Khatibi, a Moroccan sociologist and writer. On the basis of a corpus of texts by the author (essays and works of fiction), it will be shown that Abdelkébir Khatibi gives a new dynamic to Maghrebian literature by contributing to the themes of the decentring and deterritorialisation of Moroccan being. The aim is to see how writing is a place of contemporary questioning close to those raised in postcolonial studies. Thus, it will first deal with the author's representation of identity and expose the criticisms that he addresses of the identity huis-clos in the East and logocentrism in the West. Then the focus will shift to the notion of bi-language as a decentring of the idea of a unitary 'one' in Khatibi's thought. At this level, the extent to which bi-language, like the thought-other, is part of the author's double critique of the doxa, of the Arab cultural heritage and of the Western episteme, will be shown. On the other hand, the narration of bi-language in the novel Amour bilingue will be dealt with. Finally, foreignness as a quest for the Other and an unconditional opening to interculturality will be analysed.

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