The Wound of the Name

by Abdelkebir Khatibi

Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize

Abdelk bir Khatibi's The Wound of the Name (1974) is a classic work of North African critical theory that seeks to decolonize French ways of looking at and writing about Maghreb cultures. Writing at the height of French semiotics' popularity and prestige, Khatibi proposes intersemiotics as a study of signs that pass through related but different cultural geographies,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810148528
• ISBN13: 9780810148529
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.