The Practice of Alienage in Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Works

Abstract

Promoted to the rank of operational concept in writing, the notion of "foreign professional" means in both fictional and critical work of Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938-2009) this cosmopolitan otherness that reduces identity disparities and cultural differences. Late Khatibi’s fictions, includ-ing Un été à Stockholm (1990) and Féerie d’un mutant (2005) represent an ontological extraneous out with all cultural and identity anchors and discourse representations. Operating in a global space, and private of a fixed identity and separated cultural roots, the characters of these two fictions embody the thought of foreignness and border crossing practice, at the linguistic and the cultural levels. This fact grows to reflect on what would be writing and de-territorialized identity.