A l'coute des meskounates
La parole des possdes dans La femme sans spulture d'Assia Djebar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6150428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taeb Berrada (Lehigh University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 557-573 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-2679 • E-ISSN: 1758-9142 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijfs.12.4.557/1 |
| OpenAlex | W2030224921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
In La femme sans spulture , Assia Djebar relates the story of a communal obsession shared by Algerian women of her native city: the narration and overdue inscription of Zoulikha's story, a heroine of the Algerian War of Independence who was tortured, killed, and abandoned without a burial place. This article analyzes this obsession in terms of a desire for memory, an archive fever articulated by the voices of possessed women or meskounates . The women who tell the story of this member of the resistance are inhabited by her spectral voice, a narrative voice without a locus of enunciation. A voice coming from a different place, from the Other who speaks through them and emerges into the text in monologue form allows the re-inscription of Zoulikha's story in a new discursive space of feminine knowledge. This knowledge inaugurates a postcolonial discourse within which the desire for memory articulated as archive fever is a spectral intruder, a space beyond the text confined within the text that transgresses the official discourse on the Algerian War of Independence
Art · Humanities · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Resistance (ecology · African history and culture studies · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |