Fictional imagination and the stakes 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 the question of its relationship with literature. The essence of this book is the result of a research project conducted at the Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology. The project, titled “Identity in the Service of History and Memory,” aims to decipher, analyze, and interpret the modalities and conditions of the construction of historical knowledge, as well as collective and individual memory. The triad of History, Memory, and Literature raises questions in more ways than one. These three categories immerse us in the recent or distant past, and while this is evident for memory and history, it is no less so for literature. We are concerned here first and foremost with the novel, without, however, limiting our approach to the historical novel, which can sometimes be as well-documented as a work of history proper. The historiography that emerged in Europe in the 19th century, in particular, and despite its declared distrust of fiction and its positivist style, nonetheless aimed at the creation of a national narrative, as evidenced in France by the works of Michelet or Lavisse. The trajectories of these two expressions of thought—the novel and historiography—will in fact continue to intersect to this day, even though each has tended to leave its