Abstract
Examining Djebar’s third novel, Les Enfants du nouveau monde , ( Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War ), her first to depict the Algerian Revolution, I argue that it not only reveals the political, feminist, and aesthetic elements that define her later work, but is a well-crafted text that is politically correct in its anti-colonial stance, subversive in its feminist objectives; it expresses Djebar’s belief that Algerian independence alone will not liberate women. The novelist discerns a significant gender gap regarding the goals of liberation: Algerian men struggle against French colonialism, women seek agency within their family and society and political independence from France. In my analysis, I ground the text historically (Amrane-Minne), and apply anti-colonial and feminist theory (Fanon; Mernissi).
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Résumé: Examining Djebar’s third novel, Les Enfants du nouveau monde, (Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War), her first to depict the Algerian Revolution, I argue that it reveals the political, feminist, and aesthetic elements that define her later work, but is a wellcrafted text that is politically correct in its anti-colonial stance, subversive in its feminist objectives; it expresses Djebar’s belief that Algerian independence alone will not liberate women
The novelist discerns a significant gender gap regarding the goals of liberation: Algerian men struggle against French colonialism, women seek agency within their family and society and political independence from France
Exploring the process of decolonization in Algeria, the writer discerns a significant gender gap between Algerian men and women: men struggle to throw off the yoke of French colonialism; women, the captives of a colonial structure and an indigenous patriarchy, seek agency within their family and society as well as political independence from the colonial power
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Seeds of Change: Assia Djebar’s Les Enfants du nouveau monde/ Children of the New World: a novel of the Algerian War Résumé: Examining Djebar’s third novel, Les Enfants du nouveau monde, (Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War), her first to depict the Algerian Revolution, I argue that it reveals the political, feminist, and aesthetic elements that define her later work, but is a wellcrafted text that is politically correct in its anti-colonial stance, subversive in its feminist objectives; it expresses Djebar’s belief that Algerian independence alone will not liberate women.
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