Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is one of the most important writers
and thinkers to emerge from North Africa in the second half of the
twentieth century. Though not widely known beyond the Francophone
world, Khatibi's critical and creative works speak to the central
concerns of postcolonial and postmodern life. Offered here in
English for the first time, his long poem from 1976, Le lutteur de
classe a la maniere taoiste is a wildly inventive, transgressive,
and important text. Class Warrior delivers a kind of free-verse
Marxist handbook, written with the energy, movement, and style of a
highly idiosyncratic Taoism. Matt Reeck's compelling translation
captures the stylistic and thematic beats of Khatibi's verse,
rendering the deceptively simple language of the original without
losing its extraordinary layers and complexities. The introduction
provides biographical context and an overview of Khatibi's poetics
of the orphan, a subject position that seeks to avoid
authenticating notions of origins and that is also constantly
restless and forever questing. This is a rich text for contemporary
readers of poetry, as well as scholars of postcolonial theory.
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