LA RIVE AFRICAINE, DE RODRIGO REY ROSA, UN REGARD ÉTRANGER SUR LES RAPPORTS CULTURELS ENRE L’EUROPE ET LE MAROC
Résumé
In “La rive africaine” (1999), Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa explores the cultural
relations and implicit conflicts between Europeans and Moroccans living on the African side of the Mediterranean Sea. Tangiers, the emblematic passage to Europe, is the setting for bringing together a young Moroccan, a Frenchwoman and a mysterious Colombian, Ángel, who lost his passport and has to stay in the city. He will confront the identity discourse that characters from both sides of the Mediterranean Sea use to describe Others. This paper analyzes how Rey Rosa represents the Other through relations in Tangiers, where everyone is regarded as a foreigner. Migration and drug
trafficking in this border city are also investigated. Finally, we refer to the role of plurilingualism during exchanges – in Spanish, Arabic and French – among the characters, which makes it possible to experiment with alterity and understanding the Other.
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