This article discusses the problematic of identity in Maghrebian literature in French in consequence of a close analysis of Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiography.

This article discusses the problematic of identity in Maghrebian literature in French in consequence of a close analysis of Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiography, La Memoire tatouee (1971) the author point out tos how Francophone literature of the Maghreb challenges the established Arabo-Islamic notion of a unmixed origin and a unified identity. He goe onward to argue that the colonial experience has created a of recent origin relationship between the Self and the Other. Self-identification in word s of a rigid opposition to the Other (the West) complicates the emerging see the verb of a new postcolonial subjectivity liable to ovecome oppositional imagination La Memoire tatouee may be considered, according to the