L’expérience de la migration en France ou la quête de l’éthique cosmopolite. Analyse du roman Soleil amer de Lilia Hassaine

Abstract

This article shows the consequences of migratory movements in France throughout the twentieth century, as well as the proposals for improvement from the perspective, of current critics such as Bertrand Badie (2008), Tahar Ben Jelloun (1984, 2009), François Jullien (2008, 2012) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2009, 2015). Within this framework, the construction of a cosmopolitan ethic is imposed (Cortina, 2021) able to articulate the dialogism offered by contemporary intercultural literature written by women (Alfaro, Sawas et Soto, 2020; Alfaro, 2022). In this context, the novel Soleil amer published in 2021 by the French writer of Algerian origin, Lilia Hassaine, describes the migration problems in France for four decades and the consequences experienced by an Algerian family in which the cultural parameters North vs South come into confrontation and where tradition vs progress generate disagreements. There-fore, we will evoke in this article an analytical reflection around social integration.