The "I" with broken affiliations in the work of Nina Bouraoui

Abstract

We begin with the observation that the literary experience of Nina Bouraoui, having emerged in a Franco-Algerian
postcolonial context, reveals a feminine "I" of writing that unites and blends the numerous antagonistic fragments that establish
the work and its author. These are links that express themselves not in binarity and exclusivity but rather in complementarity and
solidarity. It is also clear that by deploying itself in a field of conflict, the "I" reveals its complexity in the sense that Edgar
Morin hears, insofar as it is created in a place of poetic and even political negotiations. Expressing for this purpose its interrelated
relational facets, it particularly affirms the plurality of its links broken by history as well as by the socio-individual and political
issues of the gendered identity that is strongly affirmed in this author's work. Such is, for example, the perspective developed in Garçon manqué et Mes mauvaises pensées, which we will analyze in the light of postcolonial theory and the concept of post-memory, through which we will show that these texts, while denying identity markings, participate in to put in place an allencompassing personal imagination nourished by multiple broken affiliations which contribute moreover to overcome
essentialisms and confinements.