ENTRE RÉALITÉ ET FANTAISIE : LE MANUEL DE FLE COMME ESPACE DE MÉDIATION INTERCULTURELLE EN CONTEXTE PLURILINGUE
BETWEEN REALITY AND FANTASY: THE FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK AS A SPACE FOR INTERCULTURAL MEDIATION IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the mediating function of the imaginary, considered through the concepts of phantasia and fantasy, in Algerian literature written in French. Drawing on phenomenology (from Plato to Husserl), phantasia is understood not only as a faculty of mental representation but also as a space of articulation between the perception of reality and the creation of possible worlds. Through the study of texts by authors such as Mouloud Feraoun, Mohammed Dib, and Yasmina Khadra, this reflection highlights how Algerian fiction reinvents historical, cultural, and identity-based reality through the lens of imagination. Far from being a mere escapism, literary fantasy here becomes a means of interpreting and rewriting reality, allowing for the representation of social, memorial, and emotional truths that rational discourse cannot express. By examining the narrative, symbolic, and poetic devices employed in these works - images of the earth, of dreams, of memory, of the double- this study aims to demonstrate how phantasia articulates collective memory and individual invention. This interplay between reality and imagination gives rise to an aesthetic of the senses where representation becomes an act of recreating the world. Thus, Francophone Algerian literature emerges as a privileged ground for observing the fertile tension between the visible and the invisible, the real and the fictional, where phantasia acts as a power of transfiguration: it does not imitate reality, but rather extends it, dreams it, and reformulates it.

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