Imagerie interculturelle et altérité
Intercultural Imagology and Otherness

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the Western representation of Morocco and the Moroccan, we examined elsewhere (cf. Jadir 2014a) two kinds of images: hetero-images and auto-images (“images of others and images of self”) commonly analyzed in the field of ethno-psychology or more precisely imagology. In this article, we will complete the imagological portrait by regards croisés, i.e. the confrontation of representations of cultures, observing and being observed. We take examples mainly from two literary works written on Morocco by the American writer Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down (1952) and The Spider’s House (1955), his Conversations (1993) as well as his autobiography, Without Stopping (1955). We will adopt a comparative approach, one that is both interdisciplinary and imagological in nature. It will draw upon other fields which have also addressed stereotypes, such as linguistics, sociology and narratology. This article will first explore “intercultural imagology” and then examine the novelist’s degree of openness towards cultural otherness.

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