L’identité à l’épreuve de l’altérité chez Yasmina Khadra

Abstract

The quest for identity and the representation of the Other is a major theme in French-speaking Maghreb literature. The identity hybridity caused by French colonization has given rise to several texts, also hybrid, which emphasize the interaction between identity and otherness. Faced with this production, a question arises: How to describe the boundaries of generic hybridity that allow for both collective and individual identity reconstruction? This paper study the interaction of identity/otherness and the way in which the dialectic of the Other unfolds in L’Attentat and Ce que le jour doit à la nuit of the Algerian francophone novelist Yasmina Khadra through an imaginary not only of otherness, but also of identity.