Journal of Languages and Translation
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 236-245
2026-07-01

Literary Translation And Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Algerian Literature In An Era Of Big Modals

Authors : Koudded Insaf Hind . Dobrota Corina .

Abstract

This paper investigates Algerian literary translation's vibrant scene, focusing on an identification of Artificial Intelligence (AI) effects and consequences on this scene. As AI translation software keeps evolving, its integration into literary translations holds prospects and dire complications. The research approaches AI's state-of-the-art placement within literary translations by using literary sources and exemplary or demonstrative instances to consider its strengths, particularly regarding linguistic precision, artistic touch preservation, and cultural suitability. The Algerian scene, which has excess supply from the richness of its dialectics, cultural sensibility, and identity complications, creates an evaluating test or prism to perceive AI's strengths and frailties. We take note of processing by AI programs of Algerian literary writing's common characteristics, such as those by famous authors such as Assia Djebar, Samira Negrouche, and Aïcha Lemsine, and Kabyle oral poems' subtlety delicacy. The paper additionally includes responding to ethical issues, translator agency, and recommending methods to maintain a symbiotic human-AI work flow, providing conclusions to advisory guidance to translators, teachers, and policy advisers on negotiating literary translation's future within an increasingly AI-defined world, recommending ways and institutional compromises that involve hybrid approaches to guarantee translated Algerian literature's continued richness and faithfulness.

Keywords

Algerian literature ; artificial intelligence ; big modals ; literary translation ; cultural faithfulness.