Farid Laroussi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farid Laroussi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farid |
| FAMILY NAME | Laroussi |
| SIGNATURE | LAROUSSI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Un air de rien chez Houellebecq. La désorientation dans le roman français hypermoderne
The challenge of what we understand by hypermodern is that the concept does not fit in any French literary movement or school of thought. Is it that the hypermodern novel transmutes with each contemporary author? This article discusses how Houellebecq is one novelist who has adopted ideology as a shorthand for questioning the state of contemporary French society. Yet critical reality is far more complex—as Houellebecq is no realist writer—and it …
The Postcolonial Meridian
Migration is not a thing per se but exists in the postcolonial black hole that has been keenly observed since the advent of deconstruction and Subaltern studies, or even in the battle to define and accept any critical terminology (postcolonialism, postcolonial, postcoloniality, coloniality, etc.). We know that postcolonial studies engages with many research fields (e.g. religion, language, history, gender), but where is the room for migration? My…
La littérature postcoloniale francophone
The concept of commitment is not a new one. It still it begs the question of its application across the literary landscape. Perhaps within the postcolonial context ambiguity may arise as a new challenge, especially in areas of culture and ideologies. Would not the idea of resistance be a better fit when it comes to postcolonial literature? How about the possibility of a wilful disengagement? It is usually francophone authors who take a stand, wit…
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa.
Beyond Revolution
This essay discusses how culture and politics have been estranged in contemporary Algeria. The key argument attempts to show how Francophone literature in particular has been both memorialized and silenced in a country where culture actually sits at the core of citizen activism. Most prior research tends to eschew Algeria’s political scene, while the recent ‘Arab Spring’ has brought to the fore the specificity of a country where nothing happens b…
Revolution in the Age of Identity
To understand the meaning and the scope of the “Arab Spring”, one workable methodology is to examine the reality of the unrest in a specific geographical area. Within a context of increasing political and cultural interaction North Africa has managed to maintain separate identities. This article is an attempt to examine why the Arab uprisings fail, or rather never materialize in Algeria and Morocco? This topic becomes fascinating with a view to u…
La littrature-monde en franais
In recent years world-literature in French has been heading towards a melancholic place. One reason may be that literature as cultural institution in France is slowly fading into less relevant forms that promote identity or even what the body politic refers to as national essence. Is it possible to acknowledge Francophone literature without its historical and theoretical frames? Is it condemned to continue to look back while making headways? Any …
Unfinished business
Orientalism is still an influence to reckon with even in the twenty-first century. As far as Maghrebi literatu re in French is concerned, western humanities play a great role in reshaping both issues of production and reception. The literature appears both to be a voice of liberation and to be entrapped in a dominant culture paradigm. The challenge to Orientalism not only lies in attempts to recover history but to give the people their own voice …
Éloge de l’absence dans La Femme sans sépulture d’Assia Djebar
Dans son dernier roman en date, La Femme sans sépulture , Assia Djebar décide d’offrir au lecteur un témoignage, plutôt qu’un message, sur le rôle de la femme durant la guerre de libération nationale algérienne. Ce témoignage, de par sa polyphonie narrative féminine, devient personnel, affectif, angoissé, tout autant qu’il aurait longtemps été occulté par les pouvoirs en place. C’est cette longue absence qui est au coeur du récit, qui en fait son…
Editors' Preface
Farid Laroussi, Christopher L. Miller, Editors' Preface: French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons, Yale French Studies, No. 103, French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons (2003), pp. 1-6
When Francophone Means National
The idea that Francophone studies are made rather than found is beginning to take hold of our imagination in academe. The model has moved from a single type of interpretation (Francophone world as opposed to France) to a multileveled operational system (Francophone distinctions, and differences within national discourses) first and foremost obsessed with finding ways to legitimate its own authority. The case of Francophone literature from the Mag…
Literature in Migration
La généalogie imaginaire de la littérature algérienne francophone
This article contends that French language is both the perfect tool for the expression of one’s own identity and the instrument of knowledge that has shut down all possible other ones in Algeria. The works of Rachid Boudjedra (1969) and Yacine Kateb (1966) illustrate the highly ideological dimension of Algerian literature. By debunking the very idea of French literature, their novels fight back the concept of cultural imperialism. Yet, I think th…
La littrature-monde en franais
In recent years world-literature in French has been heading towards a melancholic place. One reason may be that literature as cultural institution in France is slowly fading into less relevant forms that promote identity or even what the body politic refers to as national essence. Is it possible to acknowledge Francophone literature without its historical and theoretical frames? Is it condemned to continue to look back while making headways? Any …
Éloge de l’absence dans La Femme sans sépulture d’Assia Djebar
Dans son dernier roman en date, La Femme sans sépulture , Assia Djebar décide d’offrir au lecteur un témoignage, plutôt qu’un message, sur le rôle de la femme durant la guerre de libération nationale algérienne. Ce témoignage, de par sa polyphonie narrative féminine, devient personnel, affectif, angoissé, tout autant qu’il aurait longtemps été occulté par les pouvoirs en place. C’est cette longue absence qui est au coeur du récit, qui en fait son…
La généalogie imaginaire de la littérature algérienne francophone
This article contends that French language is both the perfect tool for the expression of one’s own identity and the instrument of knowledge that has shut down all possible other ones in Algeria. The works of Rachid Boudjedra (1969) and Yacine Kateb (1966) illustrate the highly ideological dimension of Algerian literature. By debunking the very idea of French literature, their novels fight back the concept of cultural imperialism. Yet, I think th…
Literature in Migration
Editors' Preface
Farid Laroussi, Christopher L. Miller, Editors' Preface: French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons, Yale French Studies, No. 103, French and Francophone: The Challenge of Expanding Horizons (2003), pp. 1-6
When Francophone Means National
The idea that Francophone studies are made rather than found is beginning to take hold of our imagination in academe. The model has moved from a single type of interpretation (Francophone world as opposed to France) to a multileveled operational system (Francophone distinctions, and differences within national discourses) first and foremost obsessed with finding ways to legitimate its own authority. The case of Francophone literature from the Mag…
Éloge de l’absence dans La Femme sans sépulture d’Assia Djebar
Dans son dernier roman en date, La Femme sans sépulture , Assia Djebar décide d’offrir au lecteur un témoignage, plutôt qu’un message, sur le rôle de la femme durant la guerre de libération nationale algérienne. Ce témoignage, de par sa polyphonie narrative féminine, devient personnel, affectif, angoissé, tout autant qu’il aurait longtemps été occulté par les pouvoirs en place. C’est cette longue absence qui est au coeur du récit, qui en fait son…
Unfinished business
Orientalism is still an influence to reckon with even in the twenty-first century. As far as Maghrebi literatu re in French is concerned, western humanities play a great role in reshaping both issues of production and reception. The literature appears both to be a voice of liberation and to be entrapped in a dominant culture paradigm. The challenge to Orientalism not only lies in attempts to recover history but to give the people their own voice …
La littrature-monde en franais
In recent years world-literature in French has been heading towards a melancholic place. One reason may be that literature as cultural institution in France is slowly fading into less relevant forms that promote identity or even what the body politic refers to as national essence. Is it possible to acknowledge Francophone literature without its historical and theoretical frames? Is it condemned to continue to look back while making headways? Any …
Revolution in the Age of Identity
To understand the meaning and the scope of the “Arab Spring”, one workable methodology is to examine the reality of the unrest in a specific geographical area. Within a context of increasing political and cultural interaction North Africa has managed to maintain separate identities. This article is an attempt to examine why the Arab uprisings fail, or rather never materialize in Algeria and Morocco? This topic becomes fascinating with a view to u…
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa.
Beyond Revolution
This essay discusses how culture and politics have been estranged in contemporary Algeria. The key argument attempts to show how Francophone literature in particular has been both memorialized and silenced in a country where culture actually sits at the core of citizen activism. Most prior research tends to eschew Algeria’s political scene, while the recent ‘Arab Spring’ has brought to the fore the specificity of a country where nothing happens b…
La littérature postcoloniale francophone
The concept of commitment is not a new one. It still it begs the question of its application across the literary landscape. Perhaps within the postcolonial context ambiguity may arise as a new challenge, especially in areas of culture and ideologies. Would not the idea of resistance be a better fit when it comes to postcolonial literature? How about the possibility of a wilful disengagement? It is usually francophone authors who take a stand, wit…
The Postcolonial Meridian
Migration is not a thing per se but exists in the postcolonial black hole that has been keenly observed since the advent of deconstruction and Subaltern studies, or even in the battle to define and accept any critical terminology (postcolonialism, postcolonial, postcoloniality, coloniality, etc.). We know that postcolonial studies engages with many research fields (e.g. religion, language, history, gender), but where is the room for migration? My…
Un air de rien chez Houellebecq. La désorientation dans le roman français hypermoderne
The challenge of what we understand by hypermodern is that the concept does not fit in any French literary movement or school of thought. Is it that the hypermodern novel transmutes with each contemporary author? This article discusses how Houellebecq is one novelist who has adopted ideology as a shorthand for questioning the state of contemporary French society. Yet critical reality is far more complex—as Houellebecq is no realist writer—and it …
Aesthetics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · French (6 works) · History (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)