Linguistic Hybridity and Cultural Transmission

Sociodidical Challenges of Algerianness in Contemporary Algerian Literature

Résumé

This article examines the Algerian literature of French language in the contemporary extreme (post 2000) by articulating a socio-didactic, linguistic and cultural approach. Based on two novels, Body Writingvie et mort de Karim Fatimi (1968-2014) by Mustapha Benfodil (2018) and Dis moi ton nom folieby Lynda Nawel Tebbani (2020), it challenges the hypothesis according to which Algerianity is constructed less as a stable identity referent than as a textual device: generic heterogeneity, layered writing, polyphony and fragmentary memory in Benfodil, novelistic musicality, linguistic hybridity and cultural signifiers (including Andalusian music) in Tebbani. The analysis mobilizes critical works published on ASJP concerning the poetics of heterogeneity, writing in strata, memory and textual violence in Body Writing, as well as novelistic musicality in Tebbani. On the socio-didactic level, the article proposes transposable devices at the university (equipped reading of polyphony, fragmentary writing workshops, lexical and cultural records, interpretative debate) in dialogue with reflections on the university teaching of Francophone literatures in Algeria