Malika Mokeddem reescritora de mitos clásicos

Abstract

Malika Mokeddem’s name is inscribed in that category that critics have agreed to call Literature of urgency. In this complex process of writing she recreates the birth of a personal identity and a collective, that of Algeria, for which the novelist appeals to classical myths. A first objective of this analysis is to observe from which optical input from Mokeddem contributes to the transformation and survival of these mythical representations. Since the successive stories myths in question are associated with the presence of other arts such as music, painting or literature itself and its capacity as intertext, reflections are proposed on the links established by the novelist between these different modes of expression and media in each case the characteristic.