Fictional Imagination, the Challenges of History and Memory

7 List of contributors 11 Foreword Hassan REMAOUN 17 Introduction Kahina BOUANANE Chapter I The Dynamics of Identity in Historical Writing and Thought 29 Rewriting History and Invoking Memory: The Case of Zimbabwe in Stanlake Samkange’s Fiction Benaouda LEBDAI 41 The Fate of Youssef Chahine (1997) or the adaptation of texts and history to the present day Bernadette REY MIMOSO-RUIZ Chapter II Writing the contours and images of history 55 The figure of the Arab, between images and imaginaries in Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête Hanane SAYAD-EL BACHIR 63 Comedy in tragic narrative. The case of Chawki Amari’s short stories Warda DERDOUR and Mohamed El Amine ROUBAÏ-CHORFI 77 Identity and history in Algerian comic books. A case study Leila Dounia MIMOUNI-MESLEM 89 The sequence of events in historical referentiality in the fiction of Bouziane Ben Achour. The case of *Sentinelle oubliée* Nadia BENACHOUR   103 Towards a paradigmatic reading of the Algerian Revolution Hikmet SARI-ALI 109 The role of fiction in identity construction Mohamed Hichem AIT ABDELKADER Chapter III The painful structure of history 127 The projection of identity in the spatio-temporal concept Zineb CHAOUCH-RAMDAN 135 Identity reconstruction or the double as a site of writing in migrant literature Latifa SARI-MOHAMMED 149 Outline for a sociology of clandestine emigration: the his

This work aims to explore the connections between the framework that underpins the triad of History, Memory, and their relationship with literature. The essence of this book is the result of a research project conducted at the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology. The institutional project, titled Identity at the Service of History and Memory aims to decipher, analyse, and interpret the methods and conditions through which historical knowledge and both collective and individual memory are produced. The triad of History, Memory, and Literature raises questions in more ways than one. These three categories immerse us in the past, whether recent or distant, and while this is self-evident for memory and history, it is no less true for literature. Our primary focus here is the novel, without, however, limiting our approach strictly to the historical novel, which can at times be as meticulously documented as a formal historical work.