Rewriting and Dialogism in The Novel of Kamel Daoud’s “The Meursault Investigation”
Kamel Daoud'un “Meursault Karşı Soruşturma” Adlı Romanında Yeniden Yazma ve Söyleşimcilik

Author : Tülin KARTAL GÜNGÖR
Number of pages : 777-785

Abstract

Intertextuality is a concept often associated with postmodernism, more particularly with that sphere of postmodernism where literature encounters critical theory .Generally seen as a reply to Albert Camus’s “The Stranger ‘(1942), Kamel Daoud's debut novel, « The Meursault Investigation » won several award. Daoud’s fiction overpasses the frame of common polemic writing. It cast a new light upon some traditional opposition, in order to initiate a constructive dialogue between two different cultural patterns. The story is narrated by an Algerian, called Haroun, talking nominally to a French academic in a bar in Oran. Haroun is the brother of the Arab murdered in the Camus’s novel and this murder has affected his entire life. He is bitter not only at the murder but by the fact that the book does not mention the victim by his name or any other details, except that he is an Arab. The crisis in identity related to structural imbalance, cultural imperialism, geographic displacement, political hegemony, the privileging of official history, and the psychological impact of these systems of knowledge in constituting the colonial subject is vital to postcolonial theories. In this work, we are going to analyze how these two cultures approached, interpreted and imagined each other via the dialogism and rewriting.

Keywords

Kamel, daoud, rewriting, dialogism, camus

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