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ABSTRACTS Flo Martin (Coucher College) History “re-lit”: the poetics of memory in Assia Djebar’s “La femme sans sépulture” In her latest novel, Assia Djebar adopts
several narrative strategies in order to tell the story of Zoulikha, an
Algerian freedom fighter, whose body disappeared in 1958. At first, an
oral historian, she interviews women witnesses, Then, as an archeologist
of knowledge (in the Foucauldian sense), she digs through several layers
of memory : the memory of Zoulikha’s daughters, neighbors, friends
; her own memory of her omission (she «forgot » years ago,
to tell Zoulikha’s tale while filming the history of women in the
town) ; and then the fascinating traces of memory inscribed in the ancient
mosaics of Césarée (Zoulikha’s town) in the form of
faded or half-erases women’s portraits. As author, she builds her
own narrative of Zoulikha’s life a polyphonic (various women’s
voices are heard including Zoulikha’s imagined one), non-linear
(via the use of flash-backs to various points in time and space), and
as a piece of fictionalized history in which Zoulikha’s haunting
voice can now resonate. It is this intriguing intersection of history
and fiction that I wish to explore. In this novel, history seems to be
« re-lit », i.e. enlightened by the literary images and fluidity
of fiction, and re-merging as new lit(erature). Both fused approaches
to writing a story define a new poetics of memory, against the grain of
official memorial monuments, and clearly distinct from the tradition of
eulogies, historical novels, and the epic tales of a single hero.
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