The Here and the Elsewhere in Malika Mokeddem’s Works Cover Image

L’ici et l’ailleurs dans les œuvres de Malika Mokeddem
The Here and the Elsewhere in Malika Mokeddem’s Works

Author(s): Imen Jemai
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Politehnium
Keywords: here and elsewhere; memory; identity; interculturality; universality;

Summary/Abstract: Malika Mokeddem makes her lyrics a feminine reality, she transcends reality, crosses borders to create her own weapon "writing". A medical doctor and writer of Algerian origin, Malika Mokeddem fuses reality and fiction in order to expose a new writing of "Entre-deux". Malika Mokeddem opts for self and other cultures. His identity becomes an amalgam of several other characters. His works which become juxtaposed at the same time autobiographies and still autofictions are in fact only a trace of cultural miscegenation. The texts of Malika Mokeddem are crossed by a double space "the here" and "the elsewhere", his last are written as memories for the memory. The writer chooses this coming and going in order to highlight an alterity or even a universality of her writings. The conception of space in its mokeddemian dimension holds the reader's attention thanks to a memory effect already present. This same conception is the only guarantee between the memory and the transmission of the cultural heritage.

  • Issue Year: 3/2019
  • Issue No: 05+06
  • Page Range: 160-166
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: French