ISBN : 9782343097244
EAN PDF : 9782140014154
EAN ePUB : 9782336766515
Éditeur : Editions L'Harmattan
Nombre de pages : 160
Date : 7- 2016
Tattooed Memory
Abdelkébir Khatibi - Translated by Peter Thompson
Tattooed Memory (La Mémoire tatouée) is the first novel of the great Moroccan critic and novelist Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938-2009). Only one other novels has been translated into English (Love In Two Languages, 1991). Khatibi belongs to the generation following the foundational generation of writers such as Driss Chraïbi. For Khatibi's generation, French colonialism is a vibrant memory - but a memory from childhood. Tattooed Memory is part bildungsroman, part anticolonial treatise, and part language experiment, and it takes us from earliest childhood memory to young adulthood.