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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 72

Introduction / Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy

I. Critical Thinking: From Decolonization to Transnationalism

1. The 'Souverainement Orphelin' of Abdelkébir Khatibi's early writings: sociology in the Souffles years / Andy Stafford

2. Tireless translation: travels, transcriptions, tongues and the eternal plight of the 'Étranger professionnel' in the corpus of Abdelkébir Khatibi' / Alison Rice

3. Abdelkébir Khatibi's Mediterranean idiom / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

4. Abdelkébir Khatibi and the transparency of language / Assia Belhabib, translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston

5. Khatibi and performativity, 'From where to speak?': living, thinking and writing with an 'epistemological accent' / Alfonso Toro

II: Cultural and Philosophical Dialogues

6. Khatibi and the transcolonial turn / Olivia C. Harrison

7. Segalen and Khatibi: bilingualism, alterity and the poetics of diversity / Charles Forsdick

8. Khatibi and Derrida: A 'Franco-Maghrebian' dialogue / Dominique Combe, translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston

9. Maghrebian shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese culture / Nao Sawada

III: Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and Beyond

10. Reading signs and symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the body to the text / Rim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra Kelly

11. Abdelkébir Khatibi: the other side of the mirror / Lucy Stone McNeece

12. The carpet as a text, the writer as a weaver: reading the Moroccan carpet with Abdelkébir Khatibi / Khalid Lyamlahy

13. The artist's journey, or, the journey as art: aesthetics and ethics in the Pèlerinage d'un artiste amoureux and beyond / Jane Hiddleston

IV: Translations

14. Excerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974) / Translated from the French by Matt Reeck

15. Excerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l'Eclat, 1985) / Translated from the French by Olivia C. Harrison

Notes on Contributors.

Khatibi, Abdelkebir, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation.