The Manifestations of the Ego and the Other in Contemporary Algerian Novel Discourse A Reading of the Novel "Israel's Moon" by Nassima Zamali

Abstract

This research paper looks for tackling the issue of the ego and the other in the contemporary Algerian novelistic discourse, since it’s one of the most important issues that have been and still occupying the attention of many Arab writers and critics, starting with focusing on its concepts that have been presented in various philosophical and literary cognitive fields. It also aims to reveal the manifestations of the ego and the other dichotomy, the forms of their presence and the dialectic of the relationship between them through relying on the cultural approach. This has been done by the Algerian novelist Nassima Zamali’s novel "Moon of Israel". The author establishes her new and unique creative project, and considers it as a major narrative epic combining all what’s historical, cultural, religious, civilizational and human to answer a key question, which is: how is the dichotomy of the ego and the other manifests in the novel Moon of Israel, and especially in the field of identity battle?.