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Déjà lu ?: On Rachid Boudjedra's Recurring Jewish-Muslim Figure

Glasberg, Rebecca

L'Esprit créateur, 2023-09, Vol.63 (3), p.80-93 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Déjà lu ?: On Rachid Boudjedra's Recurring Jewish-Muslim Figure
Autor: Glasberg, Rebecca
Assuntos: African literature ; Algerian literature ; Citizenship ; Cultural identity ; Jewish people ; Muslims ; Narratives ; Novels ; Oppression ; Plot (Narrative) ; Religious conversion ; Society ; Taboos
É parte de: L'Esprit créateur, 2023-09, Vol.63 (3), p.80-93
Descrição: This article examines the recurring figure of Henriette Gozlan, a Jewish-Muslim seamstress who (re)appears in multiple novels by Algerian author Rachid Boudjedra. Through a close reading of the particularities of Henriette's relationship to and place in the protagonist's family in La répudiation (1969), La macération (1984), and La dépossession (2017), I demonstrate how Boudjedra's œuvre challenges both colonial-era French discourse that sought to divide Algerian Jews and Muslims into distinct ethno-racial and political groups, and the postcolonial Algerian national narrative that ironically relied upon these artificial productions to construct a national religious and cultural identity.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês;Francês

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