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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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L'esthétique didactique de Yasmina Khadra
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Based on three novels by the contemporary Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the study discusses didactic and aesthetic features of the literary text. While essentially set in the Arab world, Khadra’s fiction links to western encyclopaedia and journalistic discourse. In relating to this part of the reader’s experience, the novels produce an impression of proximity to the peripheral real, and a sense of responsibility. It is suggested that this interdiscursivity be viewed not as a deviation from literature but as inherent to literary discourse itself; the text comments and constitutes simultaneously. Emphasising the hybridity of literary means and didactical drive, the study proposes that Khadra’s work be labelled “didafiction”.
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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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Yasmina Khadra et le lecteur occidental
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Ingår i: Pensar a Literatura no Séc. XXI. - Braga : ALETHEIA – Associação Científica e Cultural. - 9789726972006 ; , s. 365-376
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking the example of the Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, the present study examines the intercultural discourse created by North African fiction addressing a Western reader.Considering a novel originally published in France in 2006, namely Les sirènes de Bagdad, the study suggests that already the choice of language and genre is an expression of the author’s approaching of the Western reader. Also, the Western reader is written into the story by didactic features and referential play. Examining Yasmina Khadra’s image and the rhetoric of his narrative, the study finds that the author produces intermediate acts of speech aiming to make certain aspects of Arabic culture intelligible to the Western reader. Judging from the reception in Europe and in the USA, the prose in question is generally perceived as a relevant and enlightening commentary to the situation in the Middle-East. However, some German critics seem reluctant towards the authority of the writer and to parts of the referential grounding. The study suggests that the differences of opinion in this respect depend on varying degrees of readiness to accept the designated role of the reader inherent to the enunciative situation.
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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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Didafictions : Littérarité, didacticité et interdiscursivité dans douze romans de Robert Bober, Michel Houellebecq et Yasmina Khadra
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using as example twelve novels by Robert Bober, Michel Houellebecq and Yasmina Khadra, the dissertation discusses the aesthetic and pragmatic implications of integrating didactically historical reference in fictional narrative and personal theme. Rather than reducing the works of Bober, Houellebecq and Khadra to tendency novels sculptured to pass on a predetermined message, the study discusses the aesthetic values created by didactical play. Not only does historical reference form the setting of the novels but the feelings and ideas expressed by the characters also point outwards, challenging journalistic discourse and historical fact. After underlining the obvious heritage from social realism, littérature engagée and Tendenzliteratur, the study points to the possibility of a reading mode that uncannily marries self forgetting imaginary and historical learning. Finding no comprehensive description within existing theories of genre, the thesis proposes the neologism “didafiction” for a subcategory to the novel that, by systematic interdiscursive play, call for engagement without subscribing to pre-existent doctrines. The lessons given by this literature, rather than operating through a traditionally pedagogic rhetoric, work through sophisticated artistic procedures that integrate encyclopaedia and ethics in a personal theme structure.
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- Ågerup, Karl, 1972-
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La Shoah comme matière de fiction : Robert Bober
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Ingår i: Synergies Pays Riverains de la Baltique. - Sylvains les Moulins : Gerflint. - 1768-2649 .- 2261-2769. ; 10, s. 107-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Among the literary works produced by Jewish Polish immigrants in France during the Second World War, the works of Robert Bober stand out in terms of style, rhetoric of understatement and their treatment of memory without fixing it too tightly to the historical event. This study, which includes unpublished statements from the writer, examines the complex play by which history and fantasy merge in a literary work. By integrating the event with a personal theme, Robert Bober brings out the horror of Nazism without polemic or pity. Bober’s aim is neither revenge nor provocation - even if his words are violent by association. The modus is not imperative, it is affirmative, performing only pragmatically. The narrator notes, reproduces without copying and develops memory. Therefore, the reader never feels confronted with an ideological discourse, he has no reason to think that the story is "rigged", as is the case in some tendency novels. Also, Bober’s novels respect the principle of intransitivity of suffering, because even if the text is a kind of object, the pain is never explained. The fragmentary nature of the narrative can be explained by resistance to putting things into a definite order, as though the subject of the Holocaust deserved to stay unfinished.
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