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Affekt, hybriditet og trans-figurasjon i Nina Bouraouis Garçon manqué

Affekt, hybriditet og trans-figurasjon i Nina Bouraouis Garçon manqué

Authors :
Ellen Mortensen
Source :
Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, Vol 22, Pp 168-181 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget, 2019.

Abstract

Abstract In this reading of Nina Bouraoui’s auto-fictional novel Garçon manqué (2000), using Franz Fanon’s concepts of affectivity and hybridity, as well as Senghor’s notion of rhythm, I explore the narrator/protagonist Nina’s violent and turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood, caught in the transcultural conflict zone between France and Algeria. For Nina, it is above all the loss of her childhood friend, Amine, and their shared connection to the wild, beautiful and violent Algeria that causes her deep sense of melancholia. The young girl develops various strategies for survival in these precarious circumstances, one of them being gender travesty, by acting like a tomboy and assuming different masculine aliases. It is, however, the trans-figurative process of writing which becomes her main line of flight. Coming to terms with this loss of Amine and Algeria—through writing—Nina is eventually able to reconnect with her affectivity, and hence to embrace her own femininity and sexuality.

Details

Language :
Danish, Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian, Swedish
ISSN :
08092044 and 1504288X
Volume :
22
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.f41567a84647e7bbfdcc47866171f6
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-288X-2019-02-04