El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 26, Numéro 1, Pages 194-202
2023-02-27

Masculine Domination, Female Resistance And Negotiation In Assia Djebar’s L’amour, La Fantasia

Authors : Bouharrour Karima .

Abstract

Abstract The re-writing of Algerian history from the female perspective comes as a response to masculine domination and the occultation of women’s participation in the resistance to colonialism in Algerian official history. Djebar’s re-writing of Algerian history sets upside down the social hierarchy in order to allow the “subaltern” females to have their say and to dismantle the neo-patriarchal system hindering the redefinition of selfhood and the place and role of women.

Keywords

Assia Djebar ; L’Amour, La fantasia ; history ; memory ; postcolonialism ; selfhood