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The Algerian poet Jean Sénac never stopped dissecting the concept of " Algerianness " - the highly political notion of a fixed identity - to substitute for it a belonging-wandering, always to come, a decentering of the aforementioned Algerianness. The question of integration into the chosen people preoccupied the poet for his entire life and dominated his writing, the breath-of-Arabic-in-French, proposing in the obsessive fear of the mother tongue an ethical as well as an esthetic position ; the choice of a nation exceeding however the limitations of a single human life, resurrecting a post mortem " Algerrance ". What remains, the work - a poetic body - to the credit of Algeria.

AbstractAs many others, these two straits are places of transit which concern both the bordering states and the Great Powers, and which hold two prime functions, as ocean gateways, and as cross gateways. As ocean gateways, these two straits have symmetrical functions giving access to the seas bordering Europe, common functions on the ocean route between Asia and the main harbours of Northern Europe, and their particular functions. As cross gateways, the Pas-de-Calais (or Strait of Dover) has much higher flows than the Strait of Gibraltar, although on this last place, they are growing fast. With this plurality of functions, these straits appear as true cross-roads, and they are also places of geopolitical conflicts, because of very high migrating pressures, and attempts for a geopolitical control of these straits, by the presence of enclaves, especially on the Strait of Gibraltar.

In France, excision has been recognized as a penally reprehensible mutilation in 1983. This article analyzes the forms taken by the collective mobilization against excision undertaken by intercultural intermediaries. What are the difficulties and constraints that actresses and actors of this mobilization have to face in France? In the interweaving of ethnic and gender relations, the women of ethnic groups that practice excision are often in front of a paradoxical choice between denunciation of sexism in their group (at the risk of reinforcing racism) and denunciation of its racism (at the risk of strengthening sexism). However, far from being without resources, the studied women develop forms of resistances to this paradoxical choice.

Keywords: mobilisation contre l'excision, intersectionnalité, racialisation du sexisme, injonctions paradoxales, face interne des frontières ethniques, mobilization against excision, intersectionality, racialization of sexism, paradoxical orders, inner part of ethnic boundaries

AbstractMany texts by women writing in French question canonical literary forms in a variety of ways. This article examines the investigation of basic genres and texts in three novels that proceed to an intercultural and transgeneric decompartmentalization. In L'espérance-macadam, Gisèle Pineau calls into question the inappropriate use of the Bible and fairy tales (contes bleus) through characters who have so faithfully reproduced these time-honoured models that they no longer have their own language. In Aminata Sow Fall, fiction merges with the traditional form of the time to create a metadiscourse that enhances the multiplicity of forms and readings, and objects to any hierarchy establishing a discrimination between “superior” and “inferior” forms (races or individuals). This principle of the equality of races, cultures and literary forms is also found at the heart of a novel by Malika Mokeddem, Le siècle des sauterelles, where East meets West, where the spoken and written word, poetry and history mingle in an eloquent textual miscegenation. Thus, these female novelists do not content themselves with telling pleasant stories; instead, they highlight one of the essential functions of contemporary literature, already conceptualized by Glissant —relating, that is, recounting but also placing in relationship.

Based upon a corpus of literary texts by Jewish authors born, or descendants of families that lived in North Africa and Egypt and that in the 1950s and 1960s migrated to Israel, France or Italy, the essay looks at nostalgia as a foundational trope in the Mediterranean Jewish historical imagination. Nostalgia is analyzed as a literary chronotope, that allows these writers to come to terms with a complex and ambivalent past while, at the same time, reflecting upon its repercussions on the postcolonial present and future. What comes out is an original archive of memories travelling across the Mediterranean, that while shedding light on the ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial times, reflects on the possibilities of coexistence and reconciliation – or, on the other hand, on the cleavages – that still exist between Jews and Arabs, Europe and North Africa, the Diaspora and Israel.

Algeria's mining and agricultural industrial heritage dates back to the colonial period. More than fifty years after the country's independence, the question of the knowledge and recognition of its industrial heritage come to the fore. This article will attempt to retrace the evolution of classified cultural goods during and after colonization and their perception. It proposes first to define the importance and the specificities of this cultural heritage by examining the impact of the industrialization process at the social, economic and technical levels in the colonial period. Secondly, it will analyze the reasons for the feeble recognition of industrial heritage by Algerian cultural authorities, which could constitute a threat for the assets in question, but also a weakness in the affirmation and promotion of the identity of a city and a region.