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.
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.
Auteur(s)
Tristan Leperlier1, 2
1
THALIM -
THALIM - Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité - UMR 7172
( 254015 )
- Site INHA, THALIM/ARIAS, Galerie Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris ;
Site Sorbonne Nouvelle -- Paris 3, THALIM/Équipe Écritures de la modernité, Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Maison de la Recherche 4, rue des Irlandais
75005 PARIS
- France
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 ( 52995 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR7172 ( 441569 )
;
Département Arts - ENS Paris ( 1074934 )
;
École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
2
CESSP -
Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique
( 161589 )
- France
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8209 ( 7550 )
;
École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8209 ( 441569 )
Titre de la collection
Locations of World Literature (Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini ed.)
Langue du document
Anglais
Nom de la revue
JWL -
Journal of World Literature
(ISSN : 2405-6472, ISSN électronique : 2405-6480)
Publié par Brill
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Tristan Leperlier. On Islands and Deserts: Algerian worlds. Journal of World Literature, 2019, Locations of World Literature (Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini ed.), 4 (2), pp.215-236. ⟨10.1163/24056480-00402005⟩. ⟨halshs-02299794⟩