The Chronotope of Heritage in the Novel "Shiver" by Amine Zaoui A Socio-historical Approach
Keywords:
Chronotope, heritage, historical, shiver, Amine Zaoui.Abstract
The chronotope is intertwined by the granting of historical preference over nature’s time. This is because the historical is a discourse specific to the human value and standard. It is a freestanding system rather than a concession to a dogmatic system that works with it, in which it emerges to the surface as a game for ideological references like the cultural, historical and religious references, revealing accumulated contradictions in the human heritage. Amine Zaoui tried to present them in his “Shiver” by ruining its hierarchies and rebuilding them according to a modernist perspective to become an expectant moment in which the writer recalls the dynamics of history and the forms of chronotope as well. This refers him to: how to employ the chronotope of history in his shiver? How he achieved the formula of combining what is heritage and miraculous and what is realistic? Whether it is possible to declare the presence of a special chronotope for Amine Zaoui?