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Aṣābi' Lūlītā: postmodernizing the postcolony; Nedjma and beyond

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El Aref, Khalid

Abstract

This essay tackles the way the postcolony is refigured in Waciny Laredj's Aṣābi' Lūlītā (2012). It makes use of a number of theoretical insights to uncover the interplay between the representation of the colony during the colonial period through a brief examination of the fly metaphor in Nedjma, fir... view more

This essay tackles the way the postcolony is refigured in Waciny Laredj's Aṣābi' Lūlītā (2012). It makes use of a number of theoretical insights to uncover the interplay between the representation of the colony during the colonial period through a brief examination of the fly metaphor in Nedjma, first published in 1956, and that of the postcolony. Relying on intertextuality, the essay attempts to highlight how the metaphor of the femme fatale, a key trope in Nedjma, is relocated in the interstices between national and transnational ways of constructing Arab identity that continues to be both here and there. The intertextual nature of Aṣābi' complicates the postcolony as it rewrites it. This rewriting seems to highlight the tragic position of Arab characters that continue to vacillate between a traditional past and a postmodern present. Thus, Waciny Laredj subverts the femme fatale trope by making it literal and ends up shaking the very basis of the postcolonial state.... view less

Keywords
Algeria; novel; literature; Arab countries; identity; post-colonialism

Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies

Document language
English

Publication Year
2017

Page/Pages
p. 1-14

Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2017) 76

ISSN
2300-2697

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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