Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Aesthetic practices have become more and more diversified in contemporary cultures. Although rewritings and adaptations are most common from literature to film, from myth/epic to novels, African filmmakers have recently been inaugurating novelization, that is the literary rewriting of a film. This essay examines the case of the Algerian filmmaker Merzac Allouache, who has written Bab el-Oued City, based on his film Bab el-Oued, in order to escape the technical and practical limitations of cinema. In doing so, he best expresses the challenges of contemporary Algeria, which is permanently threatened by violence and Islamic fundamentalism.
Recommended Citation
Tcheuyap, Alexie
(2005)
"Entre intertextualité et réécriture,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 65:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol65/iss1/5
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