La photographie de guerre dans le démantèlement de Rachid Boudjedra : Objet culturel/objet textuel

Abstract

In this study, we will apprehend the textualisation of an object to which the main character of The Dismantling of Rachid Boudjedra, Tahar El Ghomri, is carefully and it separates never for more than twenty years: a photograph of him with his four friends and a dozen other classmates of battle, during the war of Algeria. We will attempt to demonstrate that this ‘war photography’ has a double dimension: it is, at the same time, narrative catalyst for the introduction of the history of each character, and double metaphoric main character holding and the writing of the History of the war of liberation.

Keywords

• Ethnocriticism
• War photography
• cultural object
• writing of history
• Rachid Boudjedra