Estrangement of the Cultural Material in Algerian Narratives
Estrangement of the Cultural Material in Algerian Narratives

Summary/Abstract: Enculturation becomes a distinct concept in Algerian literature as contemporary writers belong to more than one culture and develop accordingly different enculturations. The cultural material is manipulated by bicultural writers rendering usual images very strange reflecting the writer’s struggle with his two languages, two identities and two cultures. Writers’ identification with the Algerian culture is variable and results in estrangement of very neutral practices such as ceremonies, local spaces, traditional habits and groupings. In a cross cultural analysis, the present paper aims at showing how the cultural material is estranged in narratives by means of intensifying negative values of cultural images.

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