Toward an Aesthetics of Self-Sovereignty
The Symbolic of Anti-Authoritarian Discourse in Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's Agadir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyamlahy Lyamlahy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 131 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/reseafrilite.49.3.09 |
| OpenAlex | W2912874676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Agadir, published in 1967 by Editions du Seuil, is an iconoclastic novel by Moroccan Francophone poet and writer Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine. Written in the aftermath of the terrible earthquake that leveled the Moroccan southern city of Agadir in 1960, the novel includes a violent critique of various forms and performances of authority in postcolonial Morocco. Beyond the symbolism of destruction and investigation, the disorientating narrative of Agadir fiercely questions the figures and the representations of sovereignty. This article, based on a close reading of Khaïr-Eddine's work and supported by material from his early interviews and critical theories of sovereignty by Achille Mbembe, aims to explore the narrative and discursive strategies of revolt used by the Moroccan author to challenge the performances of political and cultural authority. In this article, I argue that Agadir can be understood as a metaphorical representation of the struggle against authoritarian discourses in postcolonial Morocco, which points to the necessity of a movement centered in the self and aimed to rethink both the subject and the very act of writing
Aesthetics · Art · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · Islamic Studies and History · Law · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty
The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Society must be defended
Discipline and Punish
Histoire du Maroc depuis l’indépendance
Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola
A thousand plateaus
Introduction
The Politics of Literature
Hétérogénéité(s) énonciative(s)
Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis
On the Power of the False
African Modes of Self-Writing
At the Edge of the World
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |