مجلة العلوم الانسانية لجامعة أم البواقي
Volume 7, Numéro 3, Pages 1568-1574
2020-12-31

Feminising The Literary Language In The Novels Of Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Authors : Khireddine Amel .

Abstract

Since language and literature are generated by a patriarchal socio-cultural system which marginalises the feminine voice, women writers experimented with new techniques to destabilise the masculine linguistic and literary realm and establish their own feminine literary dominion. Drawing on the theories of Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva, I shall discuss in this paper how the Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi adopts an approach to language which produces writing that is feminine. In her novels, Dhakirat al-Jasad and Fawda al-Hawas, Mosteghanemi attempts to restore to the literary language its irrational “Semiotic” feminine character through her use of poetic language and cyclical narrative.

Keywords

Feminine Writing ; poetic language ; cyclical narrative ; Law of the Father ; Ahlam Mosteghanemi