Sufi Heritage in the Poetry of “Othman Loussif”
Mammeri Hamid
Abstract. The Algerian poetic text is considered an interactive text, rich in cognitive accumulation. It has deep extensions toward its external contexts surrounding it. It attempts to scrutinize its structures and the formation of its various meanings, and its artistic and aesthetic dimensions. And it relies on an approach to texts in its formation, being drawn toward the spirit of Arab heritage. Inspiring all its contents, and exploring modern horizons. This placed the Algerian poet before the necessity of benefitting from his cultural lexicon and his traditional heritage. The experience of the poet Othman Loussif was a fertile field to undergo the phenomenon of intertextuality. It appeared this phenomenon abundant in his poetic texts. Which enriched his creative experience, and deepend his artistic vision. Through weaving his poems and their representation by invoking the features and sources of intertextuality. This research paper comes as an attempt to elucidate the themes of sufist intertextuality in the poet's corpus, and to study the aesthetics of employing sufist heritage.
Keywords: poetic text, sufi heritage, intertextuality, Othman Loussif, aesthetics of heritage