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The Writing of the Extreme Contemporary A Deep Dive into Laëzza by Mohammed Dib
Full text linkLaëzza, the final work of Mohammed Dib, acts as a significant literary testament that delves into themes of alienation, disenchantment, and the search for identity. In this novella, Dib employs a fragmented and subversive writing style, challenging traditional narrative conventions. By blending various literary genres, including short stories, thoughts, and essays, the author crafts a unique and rich narrative space. The fragmented structure of Laëzza reflects the complexities of reality, where temporal markers are blurred, immersing the reader in a vertiginous experience where past, present, and future intertwine.
This narrative showcases the figure of Laëzza, an enigmatic character whose identity remains uncertain, symbolizing the internal struggles of individuals in a shifting post-colonial society. By revealing darker areas and addressing themes such as the body, desire, and abjection, Dib creates a work that transcends mere storytelling. Laëzza thus serves as a synthesis of Dib’s writing innovations while opening new avenues for contemporary Algerian and Francophone literature, making it an unclassifiable and profoundly human piece.
 
Negotiated Algerian Identity Poetics and Maghreb Resonances in Contemporary Algerian Literature
Full text linkThis research focuses on analysing the underlying dynamics of contemporary French-language Algerian literature, a period marked by aesthetic rebellion and a break with traditional conventions. The fundamental focus of our research is to elucidate the repositioning of this new “Algerianness”– freed from previous constraints – within the Maghrebian geo-cultural space, by examining more specifically what this uninhibited and polymorphous stance reveals about its profound expectations of “Maghrebianness”. Our methodology proceeds by mapping ruptures, identi-fying formal subversion and interdisciplinarity as vectors of a new cognitive density. Structured around three converging axes, the present demon-stration establishes that post-2000 Algerian identity seeks to end its dialogue with immediate history, expecting nothing more from Maghrebi identity than vertical validation and unconditional recognition of its right to aesthetic autonomy. Thisresearch concludes that this Negotiated Algerian Identity is asserting itself as a dynamic pole of World Literature, requiring an epistemo-logical renewal of Maghreb critical tools.
 
Economic Discourse and Literary Imagination Representations of Economic Transformation in Contemporary Algerian Novels 2000–2025
Full text linkThis contribution examines how contemporary Algerian French-language novels (2000-2025) transform economic discourse into literary material. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary works – notably Nos richesses by Kaouther Adimi, L’Effacement by Samir Toumi, Bodywriting by Mustapha Benfodil, and 1994 by Adlène Meddi – we demonstrate how economic cate-gories (rent, capital, market, value) structure the novelistic imagination and renew identity issues. Our approach combines sociology of literature, dis-course analysis, and reflections on symbolic economies, while considering the institutional infrastructure of the Algerian literary field. This study reveals the emergence of a poetics of exchange where economics becomes a language for thinking about contemporary Algerianness caught in the tensions of globalization.
Keywords: Contemporary Algerian Literature, Economic Discourse, Symbolic Capital, Literary Field, Globalization
The Implicit Cultural Structures in the Algerian Feminine Novel Read L’Exil de l’âmeby Nassima Belmassaoud
Full text linkAlgerian women have played a major role in the advancement of Algerian society. They have held high positions and sacrificed precious values for a free and independent Algeria. Although women have been represented many times through numerous creative works, they have nevertheless remained marginalized and largely absent from the patriarchal and creative arena. Their literary production has not received sufficient attention and has continued to exist on the margins of both feminist literature and male-dominated literature, under the authority of a patriarchal society that has kept women’s voices in the shadows.
Within this context, this study, entitled “The Implicit Structures in Algerian Women’s Writing: Nassima Belmassaoud’s The Estrangement of the Soul as a Model,” seeks to uncover the cultural values embedded in Algerian women’s writing and to make them a subject of critical enrichment and discussion.
 
Female Figures and the Reconfigurations of the Literary Field in the Extreme Contemporary Creative Dynamics Renewed Visibility, and the Contribution of Female Voices to Contemporary Literature
Full text linkExtreme contemporary literature is characterized by formal experimentation and its capacity to challenge narrative and cultural norms. Within this context, women occupy an increasingly significant and influential position as authors, editors, and critics, actively contributing to the transformation of literary imaginaries and practices. This study examines how female voices shape and reinvent the contemporary literary field, analyzing aesthetic strategies, thematic explorations, and associated sociocultural issues. It highlights that women’s presence goes beyond mere represent-ation, actively participating in the reconfiguration of genres, forms, and modes of reception. The methodology combines literary analysis of texts, observation of editorial trends, and interviews with representative authors, allowing for both theoretical and empirical insights. Findings reveal inno-vative writing practices, diversified thematic concerns, and enhanced visibility of female perspectives within a space historically dominated by male hierarchies. The study also emphasizes the importance of acknowledging women’s contributions within institutional, media, and critical frameworks that structure the circulation of works. By adopting an analytical and affirmative perspective, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of the transformative dynamics of the contemporary literary landscape and the emergence of new voices. It also proposes avenues for promoting and disseminating female creative practices, consolidating their role in defining and renewing extreme contemporary literature. This work ultimately affirms the centrality of female authors in shaping the evolution and richness of today’s literary field.
Keywords: Women, Contemporary Literature, Extreme Contemporary, Female Voices, Narrative Innovation
Literary Creativity The Role of Chance in the Writer’s Neuropsychological Process
Full text linkThis paper examines the role of chance in the writer’s neuropsychological process and its impact on literary creativity. It focuses on the interaction between unforeseen, often unconscious, events and the cognitive and emotional mechanisms mobilised during the act of writing. Based on re-research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this study analyses how the writer’s brain integrates these random elements, enabling spontaneous ideas to be transformed into structured literary creations. From this perspective, chance is more than a mere coincidence; it becomes a factor that stimulates the imagination, capable of inducing narrative innovation and broadening creative horizons. This re-thinking sheds new light on the complexity of the creative process, highlighting the dynamic interplay between conscious control and spontaneity in literary production, and adopting a multidisciplinary approach.
Keywords: Randomness, Neuropsychology, Literary Creativity, Writer, Creative Process
Discourses of Female Exile and the Quest for Identity of The Self for an Eternal Return in Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Assia Djebar
Full text linkThe exile of the femalecharacters to a new land isneverconceived as a definitivedeparture, not least becauseitisalways a more or lessforceduprooting, oftenprecipitated by history. Whatever the trigger –economic situation, politicalregime, war or naturaldisaster– the abandonment of the place of originimmediately exposes the femalecharacters to a profounddilemma. How do the femalecharacterscopewith the inevitableinnerconflictengendered by exile, and manage the clash of differenceswithinthemselves? And, above all, will a return to their homeland everbe an option? In this article, we propose to examine the strategies of novelisticdiscourseused in the Djebariantext in order to question and demonstrate the possible functions of resilience in the femalecharacters.
Keywords: Exile, Fragmented Identity, Wandering, Female Characters, Uprooting
The Novel as a Laboratory of Reality Mustapha Benfodil and Samir Toumi
Full text linkSince the dawn of the 21st century, Algerian literature has distinguished itself as a field of aesthetic renewal and universal thought. It evokes the memory of conflict, the search for identity, and globalization, offering innovative writing styles where multilingualism, fragmentation, and metatextuality serve as dynamic means of expression. This contemporary era, characterized by a dual tension – an adherence to a complex historical and linguistic memory – and access to a globalized, deterritorialized, and digital world, leads us to ask: how does contemporary Algerian literature revolutionize our vision of writing, the subject, and the world, and what is its contribution to the international literary landscape? This suggests that contemporary Algerian literature embodies an aesthetic revolution where language is transformed into a field of experimentation, where memory plays a poetic role, and pluralism represents a universal perspective. Therefore, we attempt here to examine how contemporary Algerian literature alters the perception of reality through an analysis of the works of Mustapha Benfodil and Samir Toumi. In this context, the novel is no longer simply a reflection of society; it becomes a laboratory of reality, a kind of platform for linguistic, media, and existential experimentation. For Benfodil, writing is transformed into performance and urban polyphony; while for Toumi, it is expressed through introspection and the clinical study of erasure.Comparing these two approaches, the analysis reveals how the contemporary Algerian novel creates a new aesthetic of the world, simultaneously local and universal, which updates narrative formats and the modes of authorial involvement.
 
The Adjective and the Expression of Quality in Kabyle Syntactic and Semantic Behavior
Full text linkIn this article, we studied the morphosyntactic behaviour of adjectives and attempted to study their limits. We saw how adjectives are inserted into propositions (with their two functions, that of epithet and that of predicate), the different modifiers they admit, the possible complements they can be provided with and the coordination they are allowed (between them or with the elements that accompany them at the syntagmatic level). We also addressed the issues of the proximity of adjectives with nouns and the similarity that adjectives can have with other syntactic structures regarding the expression of quality.
Keywords: Adjective, Noun, Expression Of Quality, Syntax, Kabyle
Ethos and Humanism of the Threshold at Malika Mokaddem From Revolt to Restorative Oblivion
Full text linkWhen literature manages to transcribe the feelings of each and every one of us, it fulfills its highest mission: to make individual experience a shared human experience. It is precisely this humanistic vocation that the work of Malika Mokaddem achieves, where personal narrative becomes an act of recognition and transmission. This article explores the development of ethos and humanism in the work of Malika Mokaddem, based on a detailed analysis of her novel Je dois tout à ton oubli(2008). In line with the trend of extreme contemporary, this formula, forged by Michel Chaillou and theorized by Dominique Viart, refers to writings that since the 1980s have focused on thinking about the fractures of today’s world: erasure of landmarks, shattering of identities, hybridization of forms. The writing of Mokaddem evolves from revolt towards reconciliation, from cry to appeased voice. This study, based on the examination of the poetics of forgetting conceived not as an erasure, but rather as a restorative action, highlights the change in the link with memory, language and the other. The author therefore reformulates the role of the writer-witness as a vector of humanity, building an authentic threshold humanism based on mobility, oral expression and mutual recognition. The article demonstrates that, in Mokaddem’s work, writing transforms into a gesture of discreet resistance and personal redefinition. Hence the term ethos in our title, where forgetting paves the way for a philosophy and an ethics of reconciliation and resilience.