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"In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair
- Author(s):
- Elizabeth M. Holt (see profile)
- Date:
- 2008
- Group(s):
- 2019 MLA Convention
- Subject(s):
- French literature, French-speaking countries, Arabic literature, Colonists, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Translating and interpreting, Algeria
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Beur, Francophone literature, Settler colonialism, Postcolonial French literature, Translation
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4jzr-tx45
- Abstract:
- Abstract This paper argues that Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s novel Dhākirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh) enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the Arabic language. e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once translated into French as Mémoires de la chair , is problematically obscured. e press reviews of the novel’s French translation serve to reveal, furthermore, that a French readership’s familiarity with the significant corpus of Francophone Algerian literature mutes the legibility of the Alge-rian linguistic drama that Mustaghānamī’s novel articulates in the Arabic original.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
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