تغييب مفهوم الذاكرة الثقافية في خطاب ما بعد الاستعمار

Abstract EN

This study tries hard to discuss the cultural memory issues in a context different from that of postcolonial novel.

This context is basically interested in memory and memory in action where the latter controls a narrative discourse resists any sort of termination.

If remembering is an ideal formula to retrieve past, a place, a narrative and a world had gone and fallen apart, termination in this sense in no doubt is an elimination of trace.

The discourse of postcolonialism used history as a criterion to analyze colonial discourse and literature of colonized people with.

In such policy we underestimated the memory and its issues, in mean time deprived the analysis from vast and major possibilities.

One has to admit memory studies are a developing main critical instrument, and certainly main critical body, so far, spinning around Edward Said theories.

Nevertheless, the body of these studies did not produce an Arabic knowledge with the shape or the model of the colonialism that founded modern Arabic states/ countries.

This is a major issue Arab critics had to start from.

But instead they chose to extend the body of Said theories, plus what any share added by his colleagues.

The Arabic criticism repeated the same thoughts, I am afraid, yet it neglected the memories and related matters.