Bob marley entre nous deux: Essai sur les enchaînements de la mimesis

This article presents a series of interactions between husband and wife, boss and secretary, and the author and a National Front activist which show how mimesis can effectively be blocked by terms which seem to indicate its possibility. It then goes on to analyze an encounter between the author and a shopkeeper in Casablanca during Ramadan in which lyrics on the radio set the stage for an exchange which explores the idea of liberty and its relation to identity and mass produced images. The image of the reggae musician Bob Marley serves as the catalyst for a « discussion » which moves out from the spaces opened up by Marley's lyrics to include spoken and written exchanges which themselves lead to the constitution of alternative Ramadans.