From Revolutionary Memory to Social Urgency The Didactic and Argumentative Turn of The Algerian Youth Novel in the Extreme Contemporary Period Analysis of Awareness and Sensitization Strategies in Salhi Djamel-Eddine’s Novel

Résumé

The evolution of Algerian literature in French marks a decisive shift from historical themes and memory (Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar) towards direct social intervention against contemporary scourges. This article analyzes Salhi Djemel-Eddine’s youth novel, Le dévouement d’une mère, focused on the consequences of alcoholism and family abuse, as an archetype of this new direction. The study demonstrates that the work synergistically mobilizes the didactic, argumentative, and religious registers to directly engage its young reader. We examine how the formal devices – from direct address (the use of “tu”) to moral argumentation (the condemnation of the “great sin”), via a complete pedagogical engineering (illustrations, footnotes, and post-textual apparatus) – transform the narrative into a tool for awakening and social prevention. The novel thus aligns itself with a literature that prioritizes reader cooperation for immediate civic impact.