Hidden elements in the Algerian storyteller Said Boutadjine’s collection «My shoes, my socks and you»

Abstract

Cultural criticism is one of the most  prominent   contemporarycritical trends generated bypost- modernist  discourse¸  as it  moved  from  text criticism  to  category  criticism  leading   to the   consideration  of  the  literary text  in the light of the culture that  produced  it.  Its  beginning  goes  back   to the ninth decade of the last century   with  the America  critic  Vincent.B.Leitch’s call to the necessity of  postmodern  culturel criticism  through   his book (CulturalCriticism  Literary  Theory post structuralism)(1992).It deals with the  search  for  the cultural  aspect  inside the literary  text by  describing this  latter as a cultural discourse. So¸ this approach looks for the cultural contexts embedded in the literary text then reveal them and uncover their significance.Since the contemporary  short story in general - and the Algerianshort story  in   particular -  includes  within  it a set of implicit cultural categories such as thepolitical¸ social and the  religious ones¸ this recherch will attempts to  introduce  a cultural  approach to the story collection « My shoes my  socks  and  you » of the Algerian  storyteller «Said  boutadjine »accordingtotheculturalcriticismmechanics this is in order to monitor and extract the hidden  categories the text encloses and highlight  their effectiveness and function within the textual structure.