M. BENIA Amel

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Department

Department of Letters and English Language

Research Interests

Postmodern Literature Cultural Studies Comparative Literature Social Criticism Literary Criticism Posthumanism

Contact Info

University of M'Sila, Algeria

Email : amel.benia@univ-msila.dz

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Recent Publications

2025-01-20

Capturing the Invisible: Dynamics of Abstraction and Extraction in Capitalism, Imperialism, and Photography through the Lens of RF Kuang’s Babel (2022)

This article examines the symbiotic relationship between capitalism and imperialism, as well as photography as a technology shaped by both, through an analysis of the dynamics of abstraction and extraction in RF Kuang’s Babel (2022). It covers key aspects of abstraction through insights from Marx’Labour Theory of Value in addition to Said and Memmi’s insights on stereotypes as abstract generalizations. It examines the material history of photography and silver extraction in relation to capitalist free trade and imperialist expansion. The article concludes with an examination of the role of colonial discourse in abstracting the non-western “other” to fuel war sentiments and facilitate dominion and resource extraction.
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, Nadjia Amrane, , (2025-01-20), "Capturing the Invisible: Dynamics of Abstraction and Extraction in Capitalism, Imperialism, and Photography through the Lens of RF Kuang’s Babel (2022)", [national] العمدة في اللسانيات وتحليل الخطاب , ASJP

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2024-11-25

Capitalist Dreams, Posthuman Nightmares: AI and the Neoliberal Reordering of Humanity in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

This article examines the portrayal of AI in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun through Deleuze and Guattari’s framework of the twofold movement of capitalist deterritorialization and reterritorialization. It highlights how neoliberal capitalism leverages AI to create new markets, reinforces social inequalities, and ultimately alienates individuals from their communities and identities through processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The commercialization of AI reflects capitalist dynamics, disrupts social interactions, and challenges human moral choices. The analysis reveals how AI contributes to technological divides, human displacement, and the creation of new territories of alienation and economic disparities. Both novels serve as cautionary tales, depicting dystopian futures where AI-driven automation leads to widespread unemployment and social unrest, highlighting the potential for AI to exacerbate existing inequalities. The novels expose the profit-driven promise of technological progress – particularly the allure of increased productivity and efficiency – and its impact on society. This paper emphasizes the urgent need for a critical reflection on the ethical and social implications of AI to ensure a more equitable and human-centered technological future.
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, Abdullah A. Dagamseh, , (2024-11-25), "Capitalist Dreams, Posthuman Nightmares: AI and the Neoliberal Reordering of Humanity in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun", [national] Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction , Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd

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2023

Narratology and Unreliable Narration in the Diary Novel: The Butler’s Diary in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.

Studying the structural elements of fictional narratives is not limiting, but it is rather an invitation to read literary texts in a way that brings out their multiple meanings and connotations. One of the most ingenious narrative tropes is the diary novel in which the narrative is framed within multiple diary entries. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989) is a modern classic that won the Booker Prize in garnered much attention among critics for its narrative techniques. It is a variation of the epistolary novel comprised of letters, but it is written in a form of a diary with entries of six days through which the story’s homodiegetic narrator travels along the British countryside to visit an old acquaintance. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to examine the function of the diary as a narrative technique, and how it establishes the unreliability of the butler in the novel.
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, (2023), "Narratology and Unreliable Narration in the Diary Novel: The Butler’s Diary in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.", [national] Eddissi Languages Journal , Theoretical and Applied Linguistic Studies Laboratory

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Is Chat GPT a Friend or a Foe for a Teacher?

Chat GPT presents numerous challenges for teachers. How can teachers deal with this challenge when it comes to evaluating students' assignments?
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, (2023), "Is Chat GPT a Friend or a Foe for a Teacher?", [national] Amel Benia , Department of English, M'sila University

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2021

Literary Discourse And Conversation Analysis: A Study Of Turn-taking Principles In Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child.

The Bourgeoning research in Discourse and Conversation Analysis has expanded its scope to literary studies and literary discourse. Indeed, the analysis of literary works as an organised discourse by looking at language’s formal features and its functional significance promises to yield productive and interesting interpretations of literary texts. This paper, therefore, aims to analyze three main conversational exchanges from Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015) by using Conversation Analysis. It draws specifically on turn-taking and topic control principles developed by Emanuel Schegloff, Harvey Sacks, and Gail Jefferson in order to examine identity construction and how to explain how the protagonist constructs her identity and moves from being a “child” to being an “adult.” The protagonist process of identity construction is made visible through conversational interactions. Hence, the examination of turn-taking and topic control in these exchanges support the other narrative techniques used by the writer and further informs the interpretations of the text.
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, (2021), "Literary Discourse And Conversation Analysis: A Study Of Turn-taking Principles In Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child.", [national] Benia Amel , Theoretical and Applied Linguistic Studies Laboratory

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The Camera Lens: Representation, Authenticity, and Manipulation in Penelope Lively's The Photograph and J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man

This article examines the presence of photographs in Penelope Lively's The Photograph in relation to personal experience, and in J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man regarding cultural implications. Most importantly, it demonstrates the photograph's ability to distort, recreate, and complicate one's perceptions of reality. It argues that an unconditional belief in the appearance that the photograph offers distorts and alters the characters' perception of their experience in time. Moreover, the digital forging of some of the photographs and disappearance of the originals draw attention to the threat of a deceitful recreation of human history. Such a recreation illustrates the transformation of documentary photographs into simulacra. In order to explain how photographs can distort an authentic version of reality and generate alarming anomalies, this article relies on close reading of the texts informed by Roland Barthes's reflections on photography and Jean Baudrillard's concepts of "simulacra" and "simulation."
Citation

M. BENIA Amel, Abdullah Dagamseh, Fadia Suyufie, , (2021), "The Camera Lens: Representation, Authenticity, and Manipulation in Penelope Lively's The Photograph and J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man", [national] College Literature , Johns Hopkins University Press

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