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Didafictions : Littérarité, didacticité et interdiscursivité dans douze romans de Robert Bober, Michel Houellebecq et Yasmina Khadra / Didafictions : Literarity, didacticity and interdiscursivity in twelve novels by Robert Bober, Michel Houellebecq and Yasmina KhadraÅgerup, Karl January 2013 (has links)
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and Yasmina Khadra, the dissertation discusses the aesthetic and pragmatic implications of integrating didactically historical reference in fictional narrative and personal theme.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 Not only does historical reference form the setting of the novels but the feelings and ideas expressed by the characters also point outwards, challenging journalistic discourse and historical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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CRIME FICTION AS A LENS FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE IN THE MODERN ARAB WORLD: ELIAS KHOURY’S <i>WHITE MASKS</i> AND YASMINA KHADRA’S <i>MORITURI</i>Rachel Hannah Hackett (10682463) 07 May 2021 (has links)
<p>This thesis
argues that <i>Morituri</i> by Yasmina Khadra and <i>White Masks</i> by Elias
Khoury use the genre of the detective novel as a pretext for social and
political critique of Algeria and Lebanon respectively. This thesis links the generic (crime
fiction) and the conceptual (Political and Social Critique in Modern Arab
World). While the
detective novel is traditionally thought of as a non-academic, entertaining
part of popular culture, the use of the genre to critique the failure of nation
building after colonization elevates the genre and transforms it from mere
entertainment to a more serious genre. Both novels are emblematic of a shift in
the use of the detective and crime novel to address the political disarray in
their respective states and the Arab world as a whole. As modern examples of
detective novels in the modern Arab world, <i>Morituri</i> and <i>White Masks</i>
transform the genre through their complex interweaving of aspects of the
popular genre of detective fiction with the more serious political novel. The
historical and political context of both countries at the time of the novels’
settings are an intrinsic part of understanding the crimes and the obfuscation
of the perpetrator. In both of these novels, the technical and generic aspects
are connected to the thematic, and the detective novel structure is not just
there for suspense and entertainment. Instead, this structure points to the
neocolonial system, benefitting the most powerful and the most affluent at the
expense of the weak, poor, and disadvantaged.</p>
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