La Mémoire tatouée

La Mémoire tatouée (1971), translated as "The Tattooed Memory," is a novel by Abdelkebir Khatibi. This work semi-autobiographically explores themes common to the Maghreb region, specifically acculturation and decolonization. Khatibi was a Moroccan educator, literary critic, and novelist, known for his role in the "angry young generation" of the 1960s, whose writings questioned the social and political norms of newly independent countries in the Maghreb. His doctoral dissertation, Le Roman maghrébin ("The Maghribian Novel"), published in 1968, examined how committed writers could avoid becoming propagandists in post-revolutionary societies.1