LA CULTURE TRANSGRESSE LES PLATS – UNE APPROCHE TRANSDISCIPLINAIRE DES ROMANS DE YASMINA KHADRA, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN ET RACHID MIMOUNI
CULTURE CROSSES DISHES – A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE NOVELS BY YASMINA KHADRA, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN AND RACHID MIMOUNI

Summary/Abstract: In this article we want to show the importance of food, as a cultural mark and identity component, in the life of the Maghrebians, peoples who endured the colonialism and its consequence, the acculturation. Our analysis follows the unique way of writing of these authors, their involvement and their creative process, their stylistic and aesthetic choices, their ideologies. The analysis is based on the study of Magreb’s society and religion, which were depicted by the novelists in their novels: Partir and Le dernier ami (Tahar Ben Jelloun), Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (Yasmina Khadra), L’Honneur de la tribu (Rachid Mimouni). Tahar Ben Jelloun is the most famous Moroccan writer, whose novels written in French are a mirror of the muslim Moroccan society. He is the advocate of tolerance and cultural preservation. Yasmina Khadra is the Algerian novelist who tries in his books to reconciliate the Maghrebian and the Occidental cultures, in spite of the evident conflict. The author Rachid Mimouni militates for the keeping of the ancient traditions of the Maghrebians and denonces the aculturality. The aim of this article is to point out that the gastronomy represents a form of survival and resistance that defines the Maghrebian peoples in their struggle against the overwhelming Occidental culture. The preservation of food traditions is a way of stating the cultural identity and affiliation. The novels of Mimouni, Khadra and Ben Jelloun by their forms of manifestation and topics are a cultural manifesto and a way of preserving and sharing the Arab-Berber patrimony and its culinary heritage.

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