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Autobiographie Et Altérité, Abdelkhaleq Jayed

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Autobiography and Alterity

We proposein this paper that we are going to read and attempt to make a the oretical examination of the question of alterity and its relation to individual consciousness in a literary genre which seems to us that it arouses it in a particular and intense way: autobiography. Indeed, the autobiography, as a document of the ego and an attempt to construct identity through and in writing, raises a certain number of questions relating to the problematic ofalterity, intrinsic as well as extrinsic.

Les Ait Baamrane De Sidi Ifni: Construction D'Une Identité Et D'Un Territoire, Mohamed Ben Attou

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The Ait Baarnrane of Sidi Ifni: building an identity and a territory

In AitBaamrane, there exist a rich and diversified variety. They speak Tachelhit, the native Amazigh language of southern Morocco, they use a substantial vocabulary of words from Moroccan dialectal Arabic, classical Arabic, but also sometimes of Spanish and / or French, To this diversity of linguistic borrowings temporal, is added a construction of a complex local identity or the components of the exile of history, of holiness, of the border, of jihad (resistance) on the borders of the territory and the memory occupy a primordial place in the …

The Politics Of Self-Representation In Abdelmajid Benjelloun’S Novel In Childhood : An Ambivalent And Displaced Morrocan « Self », Azize Kour

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This article examines the politics of Moroccan cultural self- representation from a novelistic perspective. It attempts to foreground the ambivalent standpoint that many Moroccan novelists evince in imag (in) ing Moroccan cultural identity. A hybrid approach to the Self/ Other dialectic comes into play in this endeavour at self-definition. Importantly, this article tries to outline Moroccan self-representation from gendered, spatial and national perspectives. It, therefore, seeks to answer the following questions: How does Abdelmajid Benjelloun's autobiographical novel In Childhood represent Moroccan identity and culture? Is its portrayal of Moroccaness supportive or critical of the Orientalist lenses that Morocco has been …