La littérature orale berbère à l’épreuve de l’écriture de Nabile Farès : lecture de la culture en texte

Abstract

Our intention was to revisit the cultural figure of the ogress in the literature from the Maghreb, in general, and in the texts of Nabile Farès, in particular. We tried to show his literary investment as “culturème” of the oral tradition from the Maghreb. Then, we have analyzed his registration in the poetico-political writing project appropriate to Nabile Farès, as it participates to the monological speech subversion. Indeed, the author convenes the figure of the ogress, often accompanied with that of her antagonist Mqidech, so small and cunning, as she is enormous and nasty, not to make the text “readable”, but rather to “deterritorize” it. The Ogress “exited” from the Berber tale, is actively involved in this adventure of “un-write/rewrite”, marked by a widespread polyphony.

Keywords

• Berber tale
• ogress
• orality
• cultureme
• Nabile Farès