Enduring Grief: Autobiography as "Poetry of Witness" in the Work of Assia Djebar and Nazim Hikmet

Seyhan, Azade

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“…Among the thorny questions Djebar raised, Seyhan (2003) includes the followings: "How does one deal with silent voices and the blank page of the dead, How does one represent Algeria with its conflicts and horrors not translated to words?" (p.164).…”

Section: -Algerian Literature Written In French and Sense Of Double mentioning

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“…(p.164). Djebar, Seyhan (2003) argues, find no proper solution or answer to those answers. She insists on opening a horizon for writing, for she believes that words have a great redemptive power which must be shared and that the Algerian literature has a legacy that must be transmitted among generations.…”

Section: -Algerian Literature Written In French and Sense Of Double mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Globalization Speaks English: The In(visibility) of Algerian Literature and Its Resistance to Translation

Djafri

Osamnia²

2018

SSRN Journal

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The urge to adjust curricular and pedagogical contents of what texts of literature teach to learners of a foreign language, notably English, implies an understanding of the concept of global literary canon. Global or world literature then entails a literature that does not abide by the rigidity of the borders, which imprison texts within the local confinements of national identity traits. It is rather a process which allows the circulation of texts across national borders for the purpose of forming one huge hybrid culture that mixes various literary flavors. In an era of globalization and while the very notion of Western canon seems obsolete and out dated, there still exists some sort of discrimination among the texts allowed to enter the global literary canon. Some literary texts are considered not exotic enough or too exotic to meet the expectations of a wide and translational readership. For that reason, a great number of texts is deliberately marginalized and dropped from the canon confirming then the Western monopole operating upon the marketing and publishing houses. In this view of things, the present paper addresses the particular status of the Algerian literature in French within the global literary canon. It, also, aims to analyze its resistance to translation as major obstacle to its circulation and, thus, invisibility.

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Section: -Algerian Literature Written In French and Sense Of Double mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: -Algerian Literature Written In French and Sense Of Double mentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization Speaks English: The In(visibility) of Algerian Literature and Its Resistance to Translation

Djafri

Osamnia²

2018

SSRN Journal

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The Imagined Exile: Orhan Pamuk in His Novel Snow

Yılmaz¹

2012

Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk

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Lost in Conversion: Mourning the Armenian-Turk

Kebranian¹

2014

Middle Eastern Literatures

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Recent years have witnessed burgeoning interest in the inter-communal and interconfessional dimensions of Ottoman subjecthood, leading to historical studies on the phenomenology of inter-communality and its demise. However, the paucity or inadequacy of such works' archival sources have restricted efforts to explain how Ottoman subjects reacted to or absorbed the crises of differentiation that sundered their inter-communal coexistence. The discussion herein intervenes to redress this dearth by working through the auto-critical and autobiographical narrative of Ottoman-Armenian writer Hagop Oshagan . To that end, it renders a hitherto unattended phenomenology of the apostatic subject; a doubled figure astride laterally practiced sociocultural synthesis and vertically experienced politico-religious differentiation. Tracing a term of Oshagan's usage, 'hogekhaṛ nut'iwn' (meaning, 'soul-mixture' or 'psychic disposition'), first posits conversion's centrality in the synthesized self-constitution of the late Ottoman subject. A literary critical interpretation, supported by psychoanalytic close reading, then identifies the loss of such convertibility as a form of doubling, one manifest as an unresolved ambivalence experienced through melancholia. This melancholic disposition appears to be not simply an aberrant form of mourning, but also a means of self-preservation. It provides a measure of anti-historical resistance represented by the apostatic subject, who preserves the consciousness both of imperialized synthesis and the crisis of its inflicted loss in the face of post-genocidal programs of national purification.An artist's testimonies (vkayut'iwnner)-in other words, memories that are not simply a recounting, supported solely by bringing the past to the surface, but rather also constituting the tonalité of that past, its light and warmth, the very essence of life, just as those experiences were endowed to us.[…] With the present book, Oshagan tries an untried thing among us. His audacity would, of course, be justified if that book were ever to provide even a shadow suggestive of those infinite experiences.[…] I say this, thinking of that hazy world (where murder and beauty live neck to neck), of the display of feelings fundamentally impossible to re-erect today, where the threads of a man's I won't say remaining memories weave together, but at least of those irreplaceablebecause irretrievably lostcrystallizations, whose price is every civilization. 1

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Enduring Grief: Autobiography as "Poetry of Witness" in the Work of Assia Djebar and Nazim Hikmet

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Globalization Speaks English: The In(visibility) of Algerian Literature and Its Resistance to Translation

Globalization Speaks English: The In(visibility) of Algerian Literature and Its Resistance to Translation

The Imagined Exile: Orhan Pamuk in His Novel Snow

Lost in Conversion: Mourning the Armenian-Turk

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