Rethinking the Maghreb and the post-colonial intellectual in Khatibi'sLes temps modernesissue in 1977

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3979175
AutoresIdriss Jebari (0000-0002-7001-2096, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, American University in Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen23
Número1-2
Páginas53-70
Fecha de publicación2018-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2018.1400239
OpenAlexW2771004130
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

In 1977, a group of North African intellectuals produced a special volume for the prestigious French journal Les temps modernes. Led by Abdelkebir Khatibi, they sought to ‘rethink the Maghreb’ as a way to counter the poisoned, divided and belligerent climate of the region, and to offer an alternative to the authoritarian models of the nation-state that took hold after political independence. When read through the lens of Rancière’s concept of the ‘dissensus’ concerning the interplay between culture and politics, this collective volume of Les temps modernes reveals the plight of a generation of post-independence Maghrebi intellectuals who questioned their own purpose in light of their countries’ national projects. This article claims that this group intervened in the public sphere as a way to reconfigure the intellectual’s purpose in their respective societies and political systems. Their case highlights an important chapter in the region’s social and intellectual history and demonstrates how intellectual actors seek re-integration in the national community after a painful period of exclusion

Colonialism · Ethnology · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Political and Social Issues