The Wound of the Name

Abdelkébir Khatibi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2025
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4852-9 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize AbdelkÉbir Khatibi’s The Wound of the Name (1974) is a classic work of North African critical theory that seeks to decolonize French ways of looking at and writing about Maghreb cultures. Writing at the height of French semiotics’ popularity and prestige, Khatibi proposes intersemiotics as a study of signs that pass through related but different cultural geographies, times, and expressions. Proverbs, tattoos, the rhetoric of lovemaking, calligraphy, and oral storytelling show a circulation of cultural signifiers over, across, and against borders. Signs are not stagnant; meaning is not fixed. Khatibi’s intent is in keeping with his emergent double critique, which aims to redefine not only European understanding of North African culture but also North African self-understanding, by freeing it from the anthropological mandates of the modern colonial era as well as from the retrenched theocratic models that were characteristic of North African postcolonial states.

Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009) was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Matt Reeck is a translator, scholar, and poet. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in translation in 2022.

Translator’s Note
Introduction: The Text’s Crystal
Chapter One: Paremiological Discourse
Chapter Two: Tattoos: Writing in Dots
Chapter Three: The Rhetoric of Lovemaking
Chapter Four: The Calligraphic Trace
Chapter Five: The Storyteller’s Voice
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Übersetzer	Matt Reeck
Zusatzinfo	26 b&w halftones
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8101-4852-8 / 0810148528
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4852-9 / 9780810148529
Zustand	Neuware