ABSTRACT
The Moroccan thinker Abdelkebir Khatibi and the Martinican Edouard Glissant both combine the use of deconstructive philosophy with reflection on the history of the specific postcolonial places within which they write. Khatibi was born in El-Jadida, Morocco in 1938, and he attended both Koranic and French schools, before studying sociology at the Sorbonne. While Khatibi bases his vision of postcolonial ethics on bilingualism and plurality in Moroccan culture, Glissant conceives Caribbean identity and the poetics of 'creolization' as the catalyst for what can almost be read as a global cultural revolution. In addition to Caribbean Discourse and the novels, Glissant produced a series of essays or reflections, now published by Gallimard as a series entitled Poetique and numbered sequentially. Moreover, Glissant argues that 'the French Caribbean is the site of a history characterized by ruptures and that began with a brutal dislocation, the slave trade'.
