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This article argues for the necessity for world literature and postcolonial studies to examine both global hierarchies of literary legitimacy and those local practices which might challenge them, and give perspectives for other significant geographies. To do so, it focuses on the bilingual and transnational Algerian literary field; this requires different levels of interconnected analysis, namely of the two linguistic subfields, the intermediary level of national literary field and the two Francophone and Arabophone transnational literary fields. Trajectories and literary works of three very different yet linked writers, Rachid Boudjedra, Tahar Djaout and Tahar Ouettar, are examined in turn. The article traces both the global and linguistic inequalities to which they were subjected as well as their practices in order to argue that they reveal unexpected vectors of circulation between spaces and languages. Finally, this piece explores how and why each writer reinvents a world within their desert novels, that is, by narrating wanderings in the desert that are also explorations of national identity.
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Bonn, Charles. “Paysages Littéraires Algériens Des Années 90 et Post-Modernisme Littéraire Maghrébin.” In Paysages Littéraires Algériens Des Années 90: Témoigner d’ une Tragédie?. Eds. Charles Bonn and Farida Boualit. Paris: L’ Harmattan, 1999, 9–20.
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Cox, Debbie. Politics, Language and Gender in the Algerian Arabic Novel. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
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Leperlier, Tristan. “ ‘Camus et La ‘Littérature Algérienne’: Construction d’ une Notion Stratégique Dans l’ espace Littéraire Francophone.” French Politics Culture and Society 35:3 (2017), 68–90.
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Leperlier, Tristan. “D’ Alger à Paris: des écrivains aliénés?” Littérature 189:1 (2018), 30–48.
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Leperlier, Tristan. “Un champ littéraire transnational: Le cas des écrivains algériens.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 224:4 (2018), 12–33.
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Leperlier, Tristan. Algérie: Les écrivains dans la décennie noire. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018.
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Leperlier, Tristan. “Literary and Political Strategies during the Algerian Civil War.” The Sociological Review (Forthcoming).
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THALIM (CNRS-Paris 3)
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This article argues for the necessity for world literature and postcolonial studies to examine both global hierarchies of literary legitimacy and those local practices which might challenge them, and give perspectives for other significant geographies. To do so, it focuses on the bilingual and transnational Algerian literary field; this requires different levels of interconnected analysis, namely of the two linguistic subfields, the intermediary level of national literary field and the two Francophone and Arabophone transnational literary fields. Trajectories and literary works of three very different yet linked writers, Rachid Boudjedra, Tahar Djaout and Tahar Ouettar, are examined in turn. The article traces both the global and linguistic inequalities to which they were subjected as well as their practices in order to argue that they reveal unexpected vectors of circulation between spaces and languages. Finally, this piece explores how and why each writer reinvents a world within their desert novels, that is, by narrating wanderings in the desert that are also explorations of national identity.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 348 | 37 | 1 |
| Full Text Views | 25 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 50 | 8 | 2 |