References to the Cinderella fairy tale in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Assia Djebar’s Femmes d’Alger dans Leur Appartement

• Main Author: Belfar Boubaaya Naciera
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Université Sétif 2 2018-05-01
• Series: مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية
• Subjects: Assia Djebar; Charlotte Brontë; Cinderella; comparative literature; different languages; education; Cendrillon; littérature comparée; différentes langues; éducation; influences.
• Online Access: https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/article/48769

In the variety of approaches that literature offers to the reader and to the literary critic, comparative literature reveals parallels in how writers work out traditional literary elements that they blend in their narratives. This article approaches instances of fairy tale elements that are blended with fictional elements in Charlotte Brontë’s novel entitled Jane Eyre and in Assia Djebar’s Femmes d’Alger Dans Leur Appartment, more specifically the short story entitled La Nuit du Récit de Fatima. The reference to the same fairy tale Cinderella questions the reasons and the purposes for which both writers have used such a traditional story. What did the writers have in mind when writing their works? It is pertinent to remind readers and literary critics that this analysis concerns two different countries and two distinct epochs in a parallel use of shared instances from the same fairy tale.