Aleph
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 21-37
2025-01-05
The “national Character” In Among The Hill Folk Of Algeria (1921) By Hilton-simpson
Authors : Gada Said .
Abstract
This article examines the construction of literary and cultural images, which come to sight in Melville William Hilton-Simpson’s travelogue, Among the Hill Folk of Algeria: Journeys Among the Shawia of the Aurès Mountains (1921). The main task is to analyze the author's depiction of the Aurès region, with a specific focus on identifying aspects, forms, and functions of cultural of representations of “self” and “other” through his perceptions of Shawia people. By re-reading and analyzing the text through the theoretical tools and methodology provided by Imagology studies, we aim to investigate the author's portrayals of non-European characters in his travel narrative by stressing the different levels of identity discourses that are at play in his travelogue. The focus is also to see whether the text portrays the Berbers and Arab populations either positively or negatively through cultural representations, which reveal a deep-seated cultural bias, reinforcing a discourse that perpetuates a Western internalized image of the non-Western other, reinforcing stereotypes and maintaining a colonial representation of non-Western cultures.
Keywords
National character ; Imagology ; Stereotype ; Identity ; Discourse
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