{"title":"Déjà lu ?: On Rachid Boudjedra's Recurring Jewish-Muslim Figure","authors":"Rebecca Glasberg","doi":"10.1353/esp.2023.a906704","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article examines the recurring figure of Henriette Gozlan, a Jewish-Muslim seamstress who (re)appears in multiple novels by Algerian author Rachid Boudjedra. Through a close reading of the particularities of Henriette's relationship to and place in the protagonist's family in La répudiation (1969), La macération (1984), and La dépossession (2017), I demonstrate how Boudjedra's œuvre challenges both colonial-era French discourse that sought to divide Algerian Jews and Muslims into distinct ethno-racial and political groups, and the postcolonial Algerian national narrative that ironically relied upon these artificial productions to construct a national religious and cultural identity.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2023.a906704","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This article examines the recurring figure of Henriette Gozlan, a Jewish-Muslim seamstress who (re)appears in multiple novels by Algerian author Rachid Boudjedra. Through a close reading of the particularities of Henriette's relationship to and place in the protagonist's family in La répudiation (1969), La macération (1984), and La dépossession (2017), I demonstrate how Boudjedra's œuvre challenges both colonial-era French discourse that sought to divide Algerian Jews and Muslims into distinct ethno-racial and political groups, and the postcolonial Algerian national narrative that ironically relied upon these artificial productions to construct a national religious and cultural identity.
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For more than forty years, L"Esprit Créateur has published studies on French and Francophone literature, film, criticism, and culture. The journal features articles representing a variety of methodologies and critical approaches. Exploring all periods of French literature and thought, L"Esprit Créateur focuses on topics that define French and Francophone Studies today.
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