“La quotidienneté de l’horreur” dans la littérature algérienne au féminin

Abstract

Algerian novelists of the 1990s, including Assia Djebar and Leïla Marouane, often devote their work to the plight of women, i.e. the victims of “the dark decade” fundamentalism with terrorism ravaging the country. Their testimony, transposed and sublimated by poetic art, makes it possible to describe the atrocities of war and is an inestimable homage to all those who have fallen in combat. The analysis of their narratives allows the author to describe what Charles Bonn calls the “everyday horror” of Algerian women.