Object's details: Un barbare dans le voisinage : misères et défamiliarisations dans "Les Boucs" de Driss Chraïbi

Description

• PLMET:
  
  http://confluence.man.poznan.pl/community/display/FBCMETGUIDE
• Title:
  
  
  Un barbare dans le voisinage : misères et défamiliarisations dans "Les Boucs" de Driss Chraïbi
• Alternative title:
  
  
  A Barbarian in the Neighbourhood: Misery and Defamiliarisationin "Les Boucs" by Driss Chraïbi
• Group publication title:
  
  
  Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Creator:
  
  
  Polverini, Léa
  
• Subject and Keywords:
  
  
  immigration
   ;
  colonisation
   ;
  barbarian
   ;
  memory
   ;
  Algeria
• Abstract:
  
  
  This study focuses on the figure of the immigrant in Les Boucs [The Butts] by Driss Chraibi. Léa Polverini observes a parallel between the Algerian worker in Paris in the 1950s and the barbarian. As the latter is placed outside the walls of the civilised world, he follows a different mode of existence and a rhythm from those of the inhabitants of the city. Hence, the impossibility, for Algerian immigrants, to take part in daily life that allows routine and carelessness. On the other hand, their daily experience is marked by the racist rumour which deprives them of any complexity or ambiguity. In accordance with the Orientalist cliché, they are only “Arabs.” Escaping all ritualisation, the immigrants maintain a special relationship with nature, the rhythm of which structures their daily lives. Even their garden is a “barbaric” space that challenges the idea of the Western garden, whose role is to domesticate nature in order to recognize civilisation. Yalann Waldik, the main protagonist and narrator of the novel, tries to translate the daily miseries of his companions and compatriots to put them in a book. This project, however, fails due to Waldik’s excessive idealism and his belief in the possibility of saving the contemporary barbarians. For Polverini it is a bitter observation: colonisation had already robbed the immigrants of any promise of normalcy and peaceful daily life.
• Place of publishing:
  
  Wrocław
• Date issued:
  
  2025
• Resource Type:
  
  
  text
   ;
  
  
  tekst
• Detailed Type:
  
  
  article
   ;
  
  
  artykuł
• Identifier:
  
  oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:141938  ; https://doi.org/10.34616/ajmp.2025.23.4  ;
  e-ISSN 2353-3218
   ;
  ISSN 2299-7164
• Language:
  
  fre
• Abstract Language :
  
  eng
• Access rights:
  
  
  Attribution, ShareAlike
   ;
  
  
  Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach
• License:
  
  
  Creative Commons - Attribution, ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en  ;
  
  
  Creative Commons - Uznanie autorstwa, Na tych samych warunkach (CC BY-SA 3.0)
   ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.pl
• Location of original object:
  
  
  College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław
   ;
  
  
  Kolegium Międzydziedzinowych Studiów Indywidualnych, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
• Autor opisu:
  
  
  MPi

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Additional information

• Creation date: 2025-07-17
• Last modification date: 2025-08-12
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