Algérianité was the conception of a unique "Algerianess" under French colonial rule in Algeria that encompassed an independence from the French identity, and the political ideal of an Algerian homeland.[1] Algérianité conceives of Algerian identity as a unique blend of disparate influences contributed by settlers of differing cultural backgrounds. The blending of such diverse influences creates the new culture that is uniquely Algerian and this is called "Algérianité".
Literary works
editThis has been the topic of several literary works exploring the relationship of diasporas to Algeria and their shared connection to collective cultural forms.[2]
Algerian author Assia Djebar explored similar themes in her first fiction novel La Soif (1957). Her work centers on the Algerian cause to reclaim a national identity as independent from the contested and coexisting complex identities, some of which predate French rule in Algeria. La Soif was published during the Algerian War.[3] According to Algerian sociology Fanny Colonna, Djebar, Kateb Yacine, Mouloud Mammeri and Mohammed Dib and other Algerian authors viewed Algerian patrimony as shared, "a truly Algerian patrimony common to francophones, berberphones and arabophones", emphasizing the shared experiences common to the Mediterranean region.[4]
Nabile Farès – author of Un passager de l'Occident (1971) and Le Champs des oliviers. Découverte du monde (1972) – was influenced by the views of American author James Baldwin on multiculturalism. Baldwin viewed the United States as inherently multicultural, which helped shaped Farès' views about post-colonial Algeria. Farès believed that modernization in Algeria would not be possible without the acceptance of Algérianité in the paradigm of a New World that was formed of multiple nations and subject to none.[5]
References
edit- ^ Mohand-Amer, Amar; Benzenine, Belkacem, eds. (2012). Le Maghreb et l'indépendance de l'Algérie. Éditions Karthala. p. 185. ISBN 9782811107567.
- ^ Medjahad, Lila (2015). "Penser l'algérianité dans la littérature " d'ici et de là-bas " : lecture comparative". Insaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities.
- ^ Murdoch, H. Adlai (2008). "Woman, Postcoloniality, Otherness: Djebar's Discourses of "Histoire" and "Algérianité"". L'Esprit Créateur. 48 (4): 15–33. doi:10.1353/esp.0.0032. JSTOR 26289475. S2CID 143545796.
- ^ Orlando, Valerie (2017). The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813939636. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Orlando, Valérie K. Orlando (2018). "L'Altérité, l'algérianité et le devenir en errance: James Baldwin et Nabile Farès à la recherche d' un nouveau monde". Expressions maghrébines. 17 (2): 117–136. doi:10.1353/exp.2018.0020. S2CID 165600700.