Mouloud Mammeri

Benjamin Sparks (University of Memphis)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.2: North African Writing and Culture: Francophone, Arabic, Spanish.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

Dates

Born 28 Dec 1917
Died Feb 1989
Activity 1952-1989

Places

Born in Algeria
Active in Algeria

Activities

Primary

Poet
Prose writer

Other

Anthropologist
Linguist

Resources

Mouloud Mammeri (Dda Lmulud At Maâmmer), born on the 28^th of December 1917 in the Tizi Ouzou region of Algeria, was a Berber linguist, author, poet, playwright, and anthropologist. Considered as one of the pioneers of French literature produced by someone of Algerian descent, he published his first novel in 1952. His works provide a unique perspective, infused with Berber culture and identity, of the daily lives and routines of the people of the Haute Kabylie. However, one should not be led to think that Mammeri’s works are purely ethnographic, with the intent of shedding light onto an exotic and unknown culture, but that they show more complex relations between the colonizer and the colonized. His primary works consist of …

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Citation: Sparks, Benjamin. "Mouloud Mammeri". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2016 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13724, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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