ACCULTURATION AND ITS ROLE IN DISRUPTING THE MECHANISMS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ALGERIAN NOVEL
Keywords:
Acculturation; Identity; Novel; Self; OtherAbstract
This study addresses the issue of acculturation and its role in changing the mechanisms of the novelistic text, moving from a self-centred perspective towards a relationship of narrative integration with the Other. It seeks to move away from ideological partisanship and conflict closed in upon the self, and instead advocates openness, awareness of and confidence in one’s own cultural identity, recognition of the independent identity of the Other, and the placing of one culture in dialogue with another culture—or with a set of different conceptions, beliefs and visions.The Algerian novel has offered a serious perspective on this effective dimension of acculturation. It is not unusual for the Algerian novel to resonate with large numbers of writers and literary figures who have generously contributed their efforts and creative work in this regard. Accordingly, these new mechanisms can be identified in the work of Algerian novelists whose creative achievements have reached a high artistic level. To enrich the study through analysis, we have selected a number of novels that draw extensively on the Other and whose texts are replete with the influence of Western fiction.
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