L’exil et/ou l’impossibleretour : vers une quêted’une langue littéraire dansLa disparition de la languefrançaised’Assia Djebar

Abstract

There are continual exile despite the return, there are unfinished journeys thatbecome a condition of being and it’s becoming. When the exiled subject en-counters the impossibility of a new anchorage in the so-called space, he findshimself in a situation of "non-place". However, for Assia Djebar, being able tojoin the emotional materiality of her mother tongue allows her to construct animaginary space, a refuge, that of writing, a constant exploitation of frontier zones. The exile in the Djebarian version must mourn a nostalgic or utopianvision of his familiar space to engage in the universal. It is in this that wanderingand exile become structuring elements and structured at the same time by theliterary work. So, exile can be liberating. In other words, find in one's exile ahomeland, and make one's suffering a muse.Is there an imaginary universe peculiar to exile? Is the expression of memorythe only way to Self? How and in what language does an exiled writer write?In addition, how does exile manage to constitute the literary work? Finally,and inevitably, can one still speak of "exile" in a context of transculturalism, ofplural identities and especially of universality?