Intersectional Algerian Women’s Identities And The Embodiment Of Violence In Assia Djebar’s Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade And Fadhila Al-farouk’s Taa’ El-khajal

Résumé: The turbulent history of Algeria, from colonial brutality to the eruption of The Black Decade, has witnessed the widespread of extreme violence against Algerian women which, in turn, contributed to Algerian women writers’ exploration of such theme in their writings, namely; Assia Djebar in Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade (1993) and Fadhila Al-Farouk in Taa’ El-Khajal (2003). This paper explores the embodied violence perpetuated against Algerian women during two distinct and devastating periods of Algerian history, colonial rule and the Black Decade, through a comparative lens by employing intersectional theory based upon postcolonial feminist views. This paper found that although there were clear differences in the delivery of certain notions from the authors, there appears to be a set of remarkable similarities between the circumstances and resulting consequences of what Algerian women were subjected to. This leads to the belief that unless women writers, such as Djebar and Al-Farouk, bravely report on such issues, violence will not be identified as a continuous assailant in intersectional Algerian women’s lives.

Publié dans la revue: افاق للعلوم