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Global South Lecture Series | Isabella von Treskow (Regensburg) - Oran, Alger, Sétif: Raumsemiotik bei Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine und Mohammed Dib

20.05.2021, 18:15-19:45

Isabella von Treskow (Romance Studies, Regensburg)
Oran, Alger, Sétif: Raumsemiotik bei Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine und Mohammed Dib

This lecture will be held in German

Oran, Alger, Sétif: Spatial semiotics in Hélène Cixous, Kateb Yacine and Mohammed Dib

On 20 January 2021, Benjamin Stora submitted a report titled Les questions mémorielles portant sur la colonisation et la guerre d’Algérie to the French government. Stora’s argument is based on material including autobiographical literature. He mentions the intellectual Hélène Cixous who, like him, is of Algerian-Jewish heritage, and famous for her unclassifiable texts. He cites Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma in order to illustrate conflict between the age of ancestors and future time in the upheaval of decolonization. This lecture thus explores spatial-temporal tensions and affective loads in the works of Cixous (‘Les noms d’Oran’, ‘Mon Algériance’, Osnabrück) and in Yacine's Nedjma with reference to the spatial semiotic ideas of Ismaïl Abdoun in Lecture(s) de Kateb Yacine, Naget Khadda’s concept of ancestralité, and to the volume of photographs Tlemcen ou les lieux de l’écriture by Mohammed Dib.
 

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