Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
LITERA-JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES, cilt.35, sa.2, ss.453-476, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
Guene's narrative, Kiffe Kiffe Demain (2004), is an important work that examines the representation of urban youth in contemporary Francophone literature. Through the structure and linguistic attitudes of the narrative, this study aims to analyse the themes of social exclusion, cultural appropriation and identity formation in the context of the methodology of conflict and acculturation. Doria, a 15-year-old immigrant of Moroccan descent, recounts her experiences in the suburbs of Paris in a comic and pathetic style. Doria's diary narrative, which functions as her inner voice, presents the reader with a personal story and witnesses the social-ecological entrapment and forms of resistance of a generation. The slang discourse used throughout the narrative, referred to as the Language of the Local Youth (fr. parler jeune des cites), goes beyond being an ordinary means of communication and signifies the relationship that young people establish with their social reality, their forms of criticism and their possession of identity. The increasing use of local slang and multilingual structure in the narrative expresses the struggle for identity and reveals how the Morian youth in France are positioned within the cultural plurality. The story also