La généalogie imaginaire de la littérature algérienne francophone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2140108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Farid Laroussi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/486387 |
| OpenAlex | W4240516162, W2283652938 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 that the conflict between ideology and literature did not appear recently, after the colonial wars of independence, but was already underlined at the birth of French language as a national idiom in the writings of an author such as François Rabelais
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · French · Humanities · Identity (music) · Ideology · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |