Representations of the Memory Disease, Alzheimer, in the Autobiographical Novel of the Moroccan Novelist Attaher Benjaloon's 'Heena Tatarannah Thakerat Ummi" (When My Mother's Memory Staggers) as a Model

Abstract

This research works on the autobiographical novel that borrows the fictional writing techniques for depicting the biography content that acts as the mainstay of fiction, the imagined artificial art invested as it create a fictional world with wide horizons, multiple visions, various arts, and connected dimensions. It also tackles the representation of the memory disease know as Alzheimer with emphasis on the psychological, social, literary, and artistic death of this disease victim in the novel “Heena Tatarannah Thakerat Ummi” (When My Mother's Memory Staggers) by the Moroccan novelist Attaher Benjaloon that narrates the loss of his mother's memory afflicted with Alzheimer that devours her memory until it dies completely. The research attempts to discover Benjaloon’s ability to reveal the psychological, social, humanistic, fictional, creative dimension of this disease on one hand, and to transform the distorted, disordered, sickened, vague memory that staggers in place and time into a special art characterized by unique features on the other hand.