2103, le retour de l’éléphant : la science-fiction utopique en dialogue avec l’écologie
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- Sara Buekens (UGent)
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- When contemporary literature seeks to warn the reader against the environmental threats that haunt the planet, it often turns to end-of-the-world scenarios that express themselves through a catastrophic register and fall within the science-fiction genre. In this article however, I will focus on the literary genre of ecological utopia and on the way in which this genre offers concrete solutions to present-day environmental problems. My analysis of 2103, le retour de l’éléphant will show how Abdelaziz Belkhodja applies changes to a literary genre that generally seeks to be detached from reality, in order to describe current and very concrete ecological problems rooted in a specific place. By playing with the narratological conventions of the utopian novel and the science-fiction genre, this writer creates a dialogue between different temporal scales, i.e. the distant future of Maghreb cities, the (colonial) history of the places that are described, and the current environmental problems that Tunisia has to face and that are caused by rapid urbanization, industrialization, the modification of natural landscapes, the emergence of consumer society and the new types of pollution related to it.
- Keywords
- Ecocriticism, Postcolonial literature, Francophone literature, Utopia, Science-fiction, Tunisia
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H5053651NG5BXJT2W3RE33JK
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- Buekens, Sara. “2103, Le Retour de l’éléphant : La Science-Fiction Utopique En Dialogue Avec l’écologie.” NEOPHILOLOGUS, vol. 107, no. 2, 2023, pp. 185–99, doi:10.1007/s11061-023-09762-z.
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- Buekens, S. (2023). 2103, le retour de l’éléphant : la science-fiction utopique en dialogue avec l’écologie. NEOPHILOLOGUS, 107(2), 185–199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09762-z
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- Buekens, Sara. 2023. “2103, Le Retour de l’éléphant : La Science-Fiction Utopique En Dialogue Avec l’écologie.” NEOPHILOLOGUS 107 (2): 185–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09762-z.
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- Buekens, Sara. 2023. “2103, Le Retour de l’éléphant : La Science-Fiction Utopique En Dialogue Avec l’écologie.” NEOPHILOLOGUS 107 (2): 185–199. doi:10.1007/s11061-023-09762-z.
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- 1.Buekens S. 2103, le retour de l’éléphant : la science-fiction utopique en dialogue avec l’écologie. NEOPHILOLOGUS. 2023;107(2):185–99.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Buekens, “2103, le retour de l’éléphant : la science-fiction utopique en dialogue avec l’écologie,” NEOPHILOLOGUS, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 185–199, 2023.
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My analysis of 2103, le retour de l’éléphant will show how Abdelaziz Belkhodja applies changes to a literary genre that generally seeks to be detached from reality, in order to describe current and very concrete ecological problems rooted in a specific place. By playing with the narratological conventions of the utopian novel and the science-fiction genre, this writer creates a dialogue between different temporal scales, i.e. the distant future of Maghreb cities, the (colonial) history of the places that are described, and the current environmental problems that Tunisia has to face and that are caused by rapid urbanization, industrialization, the modification of natural landscapes, the emergence of consumer society and the new types of pollution related to it.}},
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