Literature & Folklore Text – Context – Transformations

This book approaches literature and folklore in Algeria as interlocking domains for the production of meaning, the representation of memory, and the construction of cultural identity. Drawing upon the advancements of contemporary literary criticism and cultural studies, it departs from interrogating the relationship between the literary text and oral heritage. It examines the mechanisms through which folkloric material transitions from collective circulation to transcription and aesthetic reconfiguration, while exploring the functions of popular memory in reclaiming and reinterpreting the past.
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978-9969-07-415-4