Traces, origine et mémoire Éléments de déplissage des plis identitaires dans "Aya dans les villes" d’Abdelwahab Meddeb
Traces, Origin and Memory. Elements for an Unfolding of Identity Pleats in Abdelwahab Meddeb's "Aya dans les villes"

Author(s): Atmane Bissani
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
Published by: Editura Politehnium
Keywords: fold; trace; origin; identity-alterity; city;
Summary/Abstract: Our paper aims at analysing the notion of the “city” as a track in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s work, starting from Aya dans les villes (Montpellier, Fata Morgana, 1999), seeing the trace as a mnemonic indicator leading, in Meddeb’s case, to the abolishing of One origin and, de facto, to the revelation of the origin disseminated here and there. Our reflection proceeds, mathematically, to smoothing, and therefore, philosophically, to deconstructing the traces included/folded in the corners and recesses of the cities visited and revisited by the narrating-character. The city, as we consider it here, functions as a metaphor of the trace of belonging to the universally human and to the humanly composite. This is what we aim drifting into: dealing with the poetics of the spatial hybrid (the city) evoked and stipulated by the temporal hybrid (the memory), containing traces as folds.

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