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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.