Biography
Amine is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Rooted in Maghrebi literature, his interests primarily coalesce around questions of translation, the poetic, and the political. Before coming to Yale, Bit completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His honors thesis, entitled Un dissident pacifiste: Translation as a Way of Being in the Later Work of Abdelkebir Khatibi sought to examine how the Moroccan literary critic sought to understand translation not simply as a mechanism of language, but a philosophical practice that was key to the Maghreb’s ongoing project of decolonization. Drawing on Khatibi’s analysis of the Islamic Revelation Story, the genealogy of morality in the Arab-Islamic tradition, and androgyny in the story of Qamarzamane, Khatibi’s dissenting poiesis presents a framework for thinking about translation, as well as difference, that is deeply affirmative. At Yale, he hopes to expand his work to include other Maghrebi, as well as Southern, writers who supported the project of what has recently been called “The Rabat School of Critical Theory.”
Languages
English
Arabic
French
Tachelhit (In Progress)
Interests
Modern Moroccan literature in Arabic and French; Amazighité; The theory and practice of translation; Poetry, poetics, politics, and poiesis; Comparative metaphysics and morality; Lacanian and Freudian Psychoanalysis; Marx and Marxism