Albert Camus; Kamel Daoud; World Literature; Edward Said; Postcolonial Theory
Abstract :
[en] This chapter discusses the circumstantial and worldly intertextual entanglements at play between Camus’s work and Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête (2013; The Meursault Investigation, 2015). I will contend that, in addition to revealing the anachronistic character of the postcolonial take in the contemporary moment, Meursault, contre-enquête’s web of intertextual entanglements with L’Étranger and La Chute re-grounds Camus’s classics in contemporary Algeria and highlights the dual necessity of situating and re-worlding them.
Research Center/Unit :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Munos, Delphine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad.
Language :
English
Title :
'Tilting Camus Sideways’: Intertextual Entanglements between Albert Camus’s "L’Étranger" and Kamel Daoud’s "Meursault, contre-enquête”
Publication date :
May 2022
Main work title :
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South
