Mohammed khair eddine biography courteney
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That Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995) died on Moroccan Independence Day may seem ironic. After all, the Amazigh writer was friends and colleagues with imprisoned dissident poet Abdellatif Laâbi and spent fourteen years in exile due to his vociferous opposition to King Hassan ii.
Mohammed khair eddine biography courteney
How patriotic could he be? But Khaïr-Eddine, like his confreres at Souffles—the avant-garde literary journal he cofounded with Laâbi and others in order to articulate new modalities for Maghrebi art, politics, and literature—never conflated nation with government.
Land and state were separate, riven in two by colonialism and imperialism; one was to be recovered, the other removed whenever it impinged on the first. This is what his work strives to do: cut back the necrotic layers of inaccurate language that state and stereotype had heaped on the land.
And he used French—the colonizer’s idiom—as razor, crowbar, turpentine, and bomb. In doing so, it was important not to sanitize the