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The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage

Damlé, Amaleena

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This article explores the writing of childhood in Sauvage (2011) by the contemporary francophone writer Nina Bouraoui, a text that narrates the experiences of fourteen-year-old Alya in Algeria as she struggles to comprehend the disappearance of her friend, Sami. The article analyses the depiction of childhood in the text as a state of unbounded wildness, interpreting this wildness as a kind of ‘becoming’, as understood by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It further draws on the work of these thinkers in examining the relationship between childhood memories and writing in the text, in which temporality is dislocated and the past is enfolded into the present, creating a kind of ‘monument’ to childhood.

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Damlé, A. (2013). The Wild Becoming of Childhood: Writing as Monument in Nina Bouraoui's Sauvage. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 49(2), 166-174. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs069

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Mar 27, 2013
Publication Date 2013-04
Deposit Date Apr 26, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Forum for Modern Language Studies
Print ISSN 0015-8518
Electronic ISSN 1471-6860
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 49
Issue 2
Pages 166-174
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs069

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