scholarly journals Imaginaire linguistique et production littéraire francophone. Le cas de trois écrivaines algéro-françaises : Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem, Leïla Sebbar

Author(s):  
Zohra Bouchentouf-Siagh
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Annedith Schneider

This essay examines autobiographical writing by two women who grew up in colonial Algeria; it considers how the relationship between fathers and daughters is marked by linguistic conflict. For each of these writers, language is not a simple tool, but instead a problematic inheritance that shapes her world and her relationship with her father. Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar, who were children in colonial Algeria of the late 1940s and early 1950s, examine their relationships to Arabic and French in terms of their relationships with their families and in particular with their schoolteacher fathers. The fathers, who benefitted from French colonial education, fail to understand the different risks inherent for their daughters in transgressing conservative community and linguistic boundaries. Each writer, even as she acknowledges the benefits of the colonizer’s language, also describes the language as a scene of violent trauma for which she holds her father responsible. With language and paternal love so tightly entwined, this essay argues that even in highly politicized colonial contexts, the national value of a language can only be understood if the familial and personal value of the language is also taken into account.


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-74
Author(s):  
Kirsten Husung

This article analyses the narrative processes and literary strategies that seek to engender the reader’s empathy for the main characters in three Francophone texts that depict the trauma of the Algerian War of independence. Each text starts from a real event by intertwining historical facts and the present with fiction, allowing for a better understanding of the postcolonial situation. These expectations are reinforced by Djebar’s and Sansal’s paratexts. Drawing on the theories of Suzanne Keen and Fritz Breithaupt empathy can especially be favoured by internal focalization, the characters’ empathic interpersonal relationships as well as polyphony. The imaginative construction of the other is emphasized as necessary, while the detailed description of historical facts may rather provoke feelings of pity. A fortiori, empathy can decline or be blocked in the passages, which go against the moral convictions of the reader. This imaginative resistance is due to the fact that these passages concern reality and not fiction


2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Vera Lucia Soares
Keyword(s):  

Este artigo estuda as representações da relação entre violência, gênero e poder na escrita literária de Assia Djebar e Leïla Sebbar, que desconstroem a imagem de fanatismo e barbárie que o Ocidente faz do Oriente árabe-muçulmano.


2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-93
Author(s):  
Roswitha Geyss

En 1977, au moment où il inaugure son enseignement au Collège de France, Roland Barthes s’interroge sur le pouvoir et le savoir. Il propose une définition volontairement provocatrice de la langue comme « fasciste » et constate qu’il faut « tricher avec la langue » et « tricher la langue », pour entendre la « langue hors-pouvoir » : « Cette tricherie salutaire, cette esquive, ce leurre magnifique, qui permet d’entendre la langue hors-pouvoir, dans sa splendeur d’une révolution permanente du langage, je l’appelle pour ma part : littérature. » (15) La littérature est donc et doit être un merveilleux terrain d’expérimentation. Nous proposons d’analyser dans cet article l’œuvre d’écrivaines algériennes dont la langue maternelle est l’arabe parlé, l’arabe féminin, et qui écrivent en français, qui est la langue de l’école et la langue qu’elles « trichent » pour entendre « la langue hors-pouvoir » (Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem). Nous analysons aussi l’œuvre de l’écrivaine tunisienne Nine Moati, qui perpétue dans ses textes le souvenir de son père Serge Moati.


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