Aleph
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 85-92
2025-01-05
Folklore And Literary Motifs In Ben Hadouga’s Rih El Janoub (the South Wind)
Authors : Serir Mahi Yousra .
Abstract
This paper targets the Algerian use of cultural extravaganza in a text that is supposed to vary between the standard and the dialect. While browsing through some Algerian novels at their variety in language and cultural aspects, I noticed that some creative Arab writers in general, and Algerian novelists in particular, tend from time to time and throughout the course of their artistic work to employ narrative structures, colloquial either at a widespread or narrow use to adverse in a way the standard text of the narrative language, for the sake of making fun and usage of popular icons in the novel. To understand the extent to which the Algerian novelist employs such popular images and dialectal structures, I decided to delve into this topic after I recorded this observation on the Algerian use of popular culture and dialect to reflect the Algerian identity. Ben Hadouga's Rih EL Janoub (the South Wind) is a sample novel that reflects upon varieties of culture, language, and memory to shape the typicality of the Algerian novel.
Keywords
Folklore ; culture ; postcolonial ; Algerian literature ; Ben Hadouga
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